Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

Your board has a serial port:

> [stuff deleted]
> /var/run/dmesg.boot:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #7: Mon Nov 15 15:09:08 EST 2010
>    root at johnny.reilly.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU         530  @ 2.93GHz (2933.46-MHz K8-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x20652  Family = 6  Model = 25  Stepping = 2
>  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>  Features2=0x98e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT>
>  AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
>  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>  TSC: P-state invariant
> real memory  = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
> avail memory = 3894886400 (3714 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  DH57JG  >

[...more stuff deleted...]

> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
> uart0: [FILTER]
[etc]

The diagram on page 12 of http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18702/eng/DH57JG_ProductGuide03_English.pdf
shows the connector (labelled R).

--
Bob Bishop
rb at gid.co.uk