[haiku-development] Re: No serial port...
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:44:14 -0800
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:35:44PM -0800, scottmc wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Pete Goodeve
> <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I suppose if my laptop has no serial port, there's no way of
> > getting at the kernel debugger from outside?
> >
> > I'm not missing anything am I? (What I really want is a way of
> > recording the dialog for debug reports.)
> >
> >
> See 2474 and 1504 . If/when we get a driver as listed in 2474, you might
> be able to remove your wifi card from you laptop and pop in a serial card.
> The one I have in a mini-pci. Not sure about what newer laptops are using
> and whether there is a serail card option for them or not.
From the comments there, it sounds like the schedule is "Sometime..Never..."
(:-/) Pity, becuase it makes it impossible for me to submit a KDL log
if I want to.
If the serial card requires a special driver, though, would it be any better
than the USB serial? Or is the difficulty that there is no way to have a
USB stack at the debugger level? (One of the comments said that there
is no USB-serial driver, but I guess that's well outdated because the
unit worked fine to connect to another machine (at 115200 if I wanted).)
[Question of complete ignorance, as I've never looked at such serial
cards -- how does a serial port connector (or 4 of them in the Oxford card)
fit into a laptop?]
Thanks,
-- Pete --
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