Serial

Introduction All I wanted to do was move my gaming rig from Windows to Linux, now I’ve contributed a fix to Wine. Obviously there is more to it than that, Valve (via the SteamDeck) have financed and made possible the running of a whole host of games and applications that are Windows native, on Linux. Through Proton and Wine, in turn, they made it possible for me to move my gaming PC (and my music production rig, to a lesser extent) from Windows and MacOS to Linux. ...

Obviously nowadays when admining we mostly have laptops - laptops don’t tend to come with serial I/O ports anymore, so you buy a Serial -> USB adapter, say this one ↗ or any one with a legit (there are fakes) FDTI FT232RL chipset. Download and install the relevant drivers but where do we go from here? Specifically on mac, find your device’s tty name: cd /dev ls -ltr *usb* I added a handy little alias to my ...

This details how to use a serial port and custom made cable to flash the BIOS on a motherboard that is not POSTing.