Subject: Re: Beep on halt (definitive?)
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/22/2002 15:32:03
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:
> > i wish i had the hardware to do this. send me a few supported
> > multiport serial cards? i just don't have the supported hardware
> > to have all my machines with serial console connected at the
> > same time, and this feature would be useful for the couple that
> > do not have soft power (ie, halt -p doesn't work.)
>
> You can find Annex's, Portmasters, and that sort of thing for on
> the order of $50 from ebay or the usual computer junk stores.
Not quite as easy for those of us not in the states...
Can we just make this an option and default it to off, so those
that do not want it pay nothing, and those that do an turn it
on?
At some future point when we can make lkms registering sysctl
entries we can have an all-singing, all-dancing version.
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