> That said, what would it take to wire the NetBSD console to a USB > serial adapter?
"Too much". USB is horrible from this persective; you need quite a lot of infrastructure to do, well, pretty much anything over USB. Take a look at the code sometime. In the particular case of the console, you'd also have to figure out what to do with the console if the hardware goes away. It's one of the reasons I dislike USB, and closely related to most of the others. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B