Re: [opensuse] Serial ports on openSUSE 12.1 [SOLVED]

On 2012/05/29 10:16 (GMT-0400) Carl Hartung composed:

Felix Miata wrote:

There were two "standards", Intel's, and the other one, which was
used by SuperMicro and various other manufacturers. When not able to
use a cable supplied with the motherboard, it was always necessary to
check a non-Intel motherboard's wiring diagram to see which of the
two, then locate a cable to match it. Or if no wiring diagram was
available, just keep trying others from the stash until a serial
mouse would work.

Good grief! I'd forgotten that I'd forgotten this. It seems so long
ago. Wasn't this around the same time we were populating memory boards
("full slot") with our own DIMMs?
...
Correction, of course I meant dual inline packaged DRAM chips :-)

That may have dated the inception of the problem, but it continued until ATX made the cabling all but obsolete. Leave it to Intel to resurrect the problem a decade later by leaving serial connectors off their motherboards' back panels.
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