Re: serial console
On 2025-08-04, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 04, 2025, Alain D D Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
>>=20
>> > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for
>> > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that
>> > it is now pretty much defunct in favor of the Universal Serial Bus.
>> > That being said, I believe one can still purchase proper serial cards as
>> > consumer hardware (i.e. $50 or so) that'll plug in to a PCIe x1 slot if
>> > you really need to get away from "USB" for some reason.
>> Even easier is to buy a USB to serial converter, eg for =A312.85:
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> That still leaves you on USB -- the comment about the PCIe card was
> specifically for an instance where USB itself was the problem.
>
> I've had that a few times where "USB" was the problem for some reason
> (I don't actually know the underlying cause); but the machines in
> question are "oh hey, this used machine is 50 bucks on ebay" type
> things, so that might play into it. Most of the time, one of those 4
> port riser cards is fine, but still once or twice I've needed the actual
> serial card.
USB can be finicky, in my experience.
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