KVM cards

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

I have never heard of such a beast. However, this is why I insist that
any machine that has an OS on it that does not allow serial port access
must have VNC on it. 

C-Ya,
Kenny

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 22:08, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> Let's say there's a machine (probably out at some
> customer's site) that normally runs without any
> KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) HW attached, but I
> temporarily need to hook up to that machine in
> order to diagnose a problem or install/reconfig
> some SW.  Wouldn't it be nice if my laptop
> had (say) a card with connectors that I could
> cable up to the KVM hardware on the machine in
> question that would allow me to use my laptop's
> KVM hardware to interact with that machine?
> 
> Anybody know if such adapters (or whatever)
> exist?  This might be a market opportunity, since
> I can't remember ever hearing of such a thing -
> all this would really amount to is something on
> the order of a 1-port KVM switch implemented as
> (say) a PCI card, right?
> 
> 
> P.S.  Unfortunately, the machines in question
>       will be examples of the dainbramaged
>       mess that's somehow become our beloved
>       Industry Standard Architecture, so please
>       don't bother suggesting that I consider
>       using serial consoles or any other such
>       civilized solutions that one might expect
>       on machines designed by/for grownups -
>       we're talking about PeeCee's here...
> 
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