2 Q's: Serial console and list of HW support

[adammorley]

--You should be able to use Windoze's Hyperterminal connected over a loopback (null-modem) serial line to get a console display. A laptop might be more convenient than a larger computer, but use whatcha got.

--Hardware compat lists, straight from Google:
http://hardware.redhat.com/
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3
http://linux.crynwr.com/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
http://hardwaredb.suse.de/index.php?LANG=en_UK

Wait: Knoppix will boot over the serial port? Is that enabled in the kernel already (its a seperate option last I checked)? Does that mean i'm going to need to always hit knoppix 2 to get it to not boot x by default? (the thing goes into a console server, and we don't have this "windoze" thing you speak of., but rather simply ssh to the serial port server.

second: is that the HCL for knoppix's kernel? those don't look like lists of what knoppix supports. . .

thanks,
adam