On Tuesday 27 February 2007 5:54:52 am Tim wrote: > Tim: > >>> What are you going to do when serial ports disappear from motherboards? > > Chris Mohler: > >> Weep! > > Andras Simon: > > No! Curse! Much more efficient! :-) > > > > Or, as a last resort, get a usb->serial port converter. > > > > BTW, I'm only advocating this approach, not using it myself. I don't > > remember having a lockup since I last tried to use NVidia's driver. > > But then I'm not using Gnome or KDE, just a trusty old fvwm (1.24r). > > I was serious in asking it. While I haven't done the serial console > trick, I see the purpose of it, and the need to be able to do such > things. I don't know if a USB-serial doodah would be useful in the > situations where you might use a serial console, you mightn't have > anything available to drive it. I once used a NetMOS PCI card that provided four additional serial ports so that I could access both a modem and a UPS on a motherboard with only one serial port. Cheap and effective. (It's no longer in use, however -- my new UPS has a USB interface, and I moved from dialup to cable.) -- cmg
