Slack 13.37 and 14.0

[John G. Heim]

The shop didn't just know whether the motherboards they use have a 
serial port header block? That's a little scary in itself. I guess maybe 
it never came up. But that would worry me a little. Do you know what 
brand of motherboards they use? I know Asus mobos usually have the 
serial port header block.

I just built a PC with an Asus mobo. While I was selecting a mobo on 
newegg, I picked out several and asked around about them. I didn't have 
any trouble finding mobos with the serial header.


On 05/15/13 20:38, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
> The shops I visited had systems built with those boards, and we checked CMOS
> to see if they were listed there as well as in manuals. They also looked at
> the board, and nothing indicated there were serial connections at all. It's
> something I will keep in mind in the future. Usually buy my stuff online;
> looks like I will again have to face those odious PDF files.
>
>
>
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> Did you look at the specs to see if they had the headers -- what they seem
> to be doing these days is have the headers without a cable or bracket, so
> you have to bring it out to a slot on the back of the unit.
>
> Mitchell D. Lynn <mlynn at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know about "most mainboards," but none of those I have looked
>> at in the flesh over the past 12-months or so have had any serial
>> connections at all.
>>
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>> Most motherboards have the serial headers, just not brought out to the
> back.
>>
>> Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net> wrote:
>>
>>> No, you're still not understanding.  Debian Wheezy has the 3.2
>>> kernel, so no serial support.  That's why I suggested installing
>>> Squeeze and upgrading to Wheezy.  That way you can run the 2.6.32
>>> kernel with newer packages and still have serial support.  No, you
>>> won't get most boot messages with software speech because it takes a
>>> while for sound drivers to load.  I have both kernels installed here
>>> so I can get hardware speech if my system becomes unbootable.  I had
>>> no problem finding a motherboard with a serial port last August.
>>> You have to look for server motherboards, but they're not that hard to
> find.
>>>
>>> On 5/15/2013 7:15 AM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the info on the 3.2 kernels. That, then, is the issue.
>>>>
>>>> RE Debian: Looks like there has been a new release since I last
>>>> looked. Grabbed the Wheezy release and installed on a test system
>>>> last night. Software synth works fine on that machine. No serial
>>>> port on this system to test with DEC. I will see how it does on
>>>> the main server later this week when I can have it down for an
>>>> extended period. I can live with a software synth as long as I can
>>>> get boot messages, and serial ports are getting harder to find on
>>>> modern
>> mainboards.
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