Monday, February 02, 2026

Re: USB serial adapter for serial console

On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 09:06:44AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026-01-31, Stuart McKim <stuart@mckims.net> wrote:
> > Now to figure out the longer-term approach for getting those panic
> > messages...
>
> what's the hardware? is there *no* serial port at all, or could there
> be one on a motherboard header?

It's an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen7 N40L. It's not exactly fast, but it
has 4 3.5" drive bays and is compact, so I've been using it for years as
my local file and backup server. It was running Debian Linux until a few
weeks ago when I switched it over to OpenBSD 7.8.

https://community.hpe.com/hpeb/attachments/hpeb/bsc-431/20886/1/QuickSpecs.pdf

Between my digging around online and physically examining the
motherboard, there does not appear to be a serial port header. It's a
small board, so not entirely surprising.

--
Stuart A. McKim, P.E.
Idaho Falls, ID

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