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Gareth Williams wrote: | On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:37, Michael wrote: | |>There wasn't a follow-up to this thread that gave a yes or no. I'm |>interested to know whether anybody has ever got this working. I think it |>is possible since the kernel supports console over serial and usb-to-serial |>adapters are cheap and easy to use. | | | Out of interest, does this "usb-to-serial" adapter you speak of: | a) help your serial device (eg. mouse) fake being a usb device, OR | b) help your usb port fake being a serial port | ?
USB fake being a serial port I think, such as with a palm pilot which does the same thing internally, linux sees a usb serial port.
However...... googling shows some possibilities, it appears the patch for 2.5.7 is actually in the 2.6 series kernel (definetly in 2.6.5)
You need to configure the kernel with CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, CONFIG_USB, CONFIG_USB_SERIAL, CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE all into the kernel. The USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE option wont show up unless USB_SERIAL is compiled into the kernel for obvious reasons.
Then just append console=ttyUSB0 to boot and all should be nice.
If the options appear to be sitting there in my "stable" kernel, I can't see any reason why it shouldn't actually work.
Sascha
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