From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 11 10:31:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB7137B406 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blue.centerone.com (blue.centerone.com [204.133.183.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D5343E88 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rf-list@centerone.com) Received: from localhost (rf-list@localhost) by blue.centerone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18873 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:44:10 -0600 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:44:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Ralph Forsythe To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (usb terminal) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually, for a network / security engineer, a serial port on a laptop is all but a necessity for configuring switches, routers, firewalls, etc. I don't know what his need is for one, but for someone like me I *absolutely* need RS-232 connectivity. I guess a USB dongle would work, but what a pain... Is anyone making the USB->serial adapter in the form of a USB to DB9F 6 foot cable yet? :) That I could use. Using a palm pilot like someone else suggested wouldn't work for me either, the screen is too bloody small for that. I like the keyspan stuff, but that's a lot hanging off the laptop when you're standing in front of a rack in a data center somewhere. I have enough trouble with those damn 3com dongles as it is! :) - Ralph On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Chris Irvine wrote: > Not so stupid I think, my new iBook has no serial, and I > couldn't be happier. Keyspan has great Mac support, but > most of their stuff should work on Wintel too. > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:01:17 -0700 > "Jeremy Buckner" wrote: > > Well the crud of the whole thing is that I bought a > > laptop with no serial > > port (stupid me) but I have 4 USB ports? Can I configure > > one of the USB's to > > use a com port and then have HyperTerminal functionality? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Irvine" > > > > > > > > Not sure why you need to do this. Is an old palm > > running > > > termal software an option for you? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message