On Sun, 7 May 2000, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Andre Schulze wrote:
> 
> [dug out from my archive, and hence a bit old]
> 
> > i am new to this list and recently got a hp 425e which i am triing to
> > get to work. unfortunately the serial ports are not displayed during
> > system start. thus, there is no entry for a serial port in the i/o boot
> > menu (the procedure how to get a serial console shows such an entry -
> > captured from a serial console).
> > however, the serial port is needed for the console since the framebuffer
> > is not supported yet.
> > we tried to boot from the net which seems to work execpt that we cant't
> > see anything. does somebody knows how to get the serial console working
> > on this machine (425e)?
> 
> I too have a 425e machine, which I've been trying (not very hard) to get
> working for the last few years in my few spare minutes.
> 
> I'm now trying more seriously to get it doing something, and have the same
> problem with the serial console not being supported in the same way.
> 
> A few years ago however, I did plug a vt302 terminal into one of the
> serial ports, and somehow I managed to get the boot ROM to talk on the
> serial port. Unfortunately, I have no idea how I did it.
> 
> On a related note, how much of an effort would it be to get the boot code
> to listen on say port 21 and bind to a socket rather than talking on the
> serial console?

Yeah, great idea!! I too have 2 425e sitting around doing nothing. I'd
give one away for developmental purposes if that would help coding for the
425e. Somebody interested?

BTW; how hard would it be to write support for the fb of the 425e?