Serial console on a ThinkPad?

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Fri Jul 16 12:25:49 PDT 2004


On 16 Jul 2004 at 20:15, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:14:14AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > I had a look at this.  I have an overview of how to do it (manual 
> > pages dcons(4), dconschat(8) and possibly a few others linked from 
> > those).  But the problem is hardware.  None of my computers have 
> > firewire.  That means buying two firewire cards.  That's about $225 
> > minimum (including the taxes and the cable).
> 
> I paid the equivalent of USB $20 for both my NEC-based PCI and CardBus
> firewire cards... including cables, and taxes, here in .uk.

That's USD I think.  If I could get them at those prices, I'd buy 
them.  Used?  I must be looking in the wrong stores.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/



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