[rescue] Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 08:35:38 (-0800), Josh Neal wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)
>
> Yup. Intel did a decent job of adding serial console support their
> "server" line of boards - the N440BX, L440GX and 450GX are good
> examples. Alas, some PCI card BIOSes(Mylex!, goddamn them) hang when
> you try to configure them via console. Sigh.

They did no such thing.  The ServerBIOS serial console sucks a million
dead monkeys through a million broken typewriters; and then it doesn't
work.

(and it wasn't Intel, but Phoenix)

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