On Tue, 2003-09-02 01:39:08 +0800, Michael Frank wrote in message <200309020139.08248.mhf@linuxmail.org>: > PL2303 is used to connect the serial console on a classic serial port > of a test machine. HW nandshaking is used > The test machine reboots once a minute and dumps lots of messages Do you use serial (USB) console to access the box or to capture some (unrelated) Oops? If you try to to the later, you're most probably off because USB needs a lot of infrastructure to work (think interrupts!) which may not be available at Oops time... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA));