From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 14:29:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0AE37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wearix.com (ad96e1d2c.dsl.de.colt.net [217.110.29.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9407D43E4A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from H@Schmalzbauer.de) Received: from obst.test (ad96e1d2b.dsl.de.colt.net [217.110.29.43]) by mail.wearix.com (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386)) with ESMTP id D0E603585 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:29:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: USB-Console, is it brain-damaged? From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 08 Aug 2002 23:36:37 +0200 Message-Id: <1028842597.29407.104.camel@obst> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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