From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 14:46:23 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 4F50237B40B for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B804343E77 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g78LkJ8n004058; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:46:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: Harald Schmalzbauer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB-Console, is it brain-damaged? In-Reply-To: <1028842597.29407.104.camel@obst> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 8 Aug 2002, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > 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) I'll bet it didn't. > 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 Ok, I'll correct you. This list is for freebsd-QUESTIONS. Your post wasn't about freebsd and didn't contain a question. If you're trying to say that you want to run serial console connections directly over USB, it would require some hacking to get the tty/vtys to listen to that device. Doable, but probably not nearly as useful as the hardware USB-serial converter you already have. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message