[rescue] Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Feb 25 15:26:03 CST 2002


On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:13:40PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I suspect you didn't test it very well.  That was undoubtably a Phoenix
> ServerBIOS, and they are about the worst designed, poorest excuse, for
> providing serial console support I could ever imagine.  It may work,
> just barely, if you connect it directly to another PC running the
> special client, at 38.4kbps or better, and if all the other factors are
> in your favour.  It's useless at 19.2kbps through a terminal server to
> any other kind of "terminal" -- worse than useless -- it can prevent a
> successful boot even!

We had these hooked up to an old Portmaster (30port) and didnt have any
problems...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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