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Looking at my last two (non notebook) motherboards (neither of them being particularly new) one of them has a pin header where a serial port could be attached,
by zauguin 4y ago
Looking at my last two (non notebook) motherboards (neither of them being particularly new) one of them has a pin header where a serial port could be attached, the other only has some contacts on the board without even pins. Neither of them had a proper port.
So even if they could offer these ports and Linux reports them, they might not be usable without special work.
- jabl 4y agoServer platforms tend to have the serial wired to the BMC and going out over the IPMI serial-over-lan on ethernet. But from the host OS it looks like a regular 16550A.
- jeffbee 4y agoUgh, not even populating the header is a terrible way to save one penny. This one I'm using came with the rear panel bracket and everything.