Date: 08 Aug 2002 23:36:37 +0200 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <H@Schmalzbauer.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: USB-Console, is it brain-damaged? Message-ID: <1028842597.29407.104.camel@obst>
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Hello all, I'm wondering if anybody has ever thought about a "USB-Console". Currently I have the problem that my laptop doesn't have any RS232 and my servers (and switches etc.) are headless. Now I wanted to purchase a RS232 to BlueTooth adapter (BT is the thing my laptop has built-in) but even if I agreed with that horrible prices nobody can deliver such a product. Then I decided to by a RS232 to USB cable which brought me to that idea. Since I'm a really fastidiuos (well, thats what the dictionary said) newbie UNIX-user (since four years) I don't really know much about "terminals" and the underlaying serial idea (esp. VTxxx). I know serial transmissions in all (un-/modulated) kinds quiet well, in fact 10 years ago I constructed some converters for rs232 to centronics, but just from the hard wire (or the HF/RF carrier)! Since I always wanted to start learning C and I'm still fascinated like a child when I can control some RS/6000 with my HP Jornada (via RS232!) I think this would be a funny project. Please correct me, -Harry P.S. I'm not subscribed, so please CC directly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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