Thank you for your input. Special thanks to Daniel who made me think a little about kernel and bootloader output to the console. I was planning on using the onboard serial, but my solution will now include one of these:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Cables/USBTTLSerial.htm I have used it before and it works out of the box on Debian. /Björn On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 16:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]>wrote: > 2011/3/6 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>: > > > If you're using a separate USB serial adapter, i think you should have > > no problems, as long as (as you suggest) you don't have a getty or other > > process attached to the USB device. > > PL2303-based USB-to-serial converters: available from maplin's for > about £15. absolutely great, i use one to connect my laptop - ok > _used_ to (it's dead) - to an embedded serial box, ran console on > that, worked perfectly. bizarre, going back to 30-year-old > technology, but there you go. > > l. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
