From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 21:02:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CB61065672 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:02:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E958FC16 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so3205559gyg.13 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=swXjxMlQihKOMnonG9+CDuMJ7EzVV7fXDW8t/MJiPJI=; b=ersGKNYypqeqj7oMUzLUXrani2KWByTqEpUCtuhW8yzExNHa3M9cN+3JsYUSoAGQzO 8NPz5MG5e7HUKX7GkMZeSy9aTm9WrKPVbATd11Aqn7GWf903M0l/sq43JR4Qu9otJkHB 5OqJcB912bCQHUkZL/Buo0DZrLj5LCRmrJrm4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=CQUeb5cbvDEwz+tT6pFNllvLM3iTPOd9lrE1EEfryCbWhY7+nNR44Rd80rhZmF7fMy TKEDcgdZ0Z+UKLciPHomjfUxw3YfW6OZaMXYhK4ZTqL98XL3rbG3Selr5z+rRlNHf0cl eutR4kqKqiGldzEluKC0J0RvhQ64CeXJil/G4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.24.40 with SMTP id 40mr6295291agx.109.1302642178397; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.67.9 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110412204955.GA31582@icarus.home.lan> References: <4DA4A96F.9000507@frasunek.com> <20110412204955.GA31582@icarus.home.lan> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:58 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: Jeremy Chadwick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Przemyslaw Frasunek Subject: Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:02:59 -0000 On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for? Baseband Management Controller. It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of motherboards. Usually includes IPMI support. Depending on the motherboard, it may even include support for keyboard/video/mouse redirection and serial-over-lan and all that other remote management stuff. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com