Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-06 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:32:52PM +0100, ropers wrote: o New uscom(4) driver for simple USB serial adapters. This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask for some time: * Has anyone here used a USB-only

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-03 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:32:52PM +0100, ropers wrote: o New uscom(4) driver for simple USB serial adapters. This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask for some time: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know,

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-11-01, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: * Does uscom(4) make this any easier/is it more compatible than ucom(4)? Nope. uscom is afaik only tested so far with HP graphing calculators. It is *really* simple, just provides a way to transfer data, it does not allow setting port speed etc. Also

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-02 Thread ropers
On 2 November 2014 06:51, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org Whatever you want, just try it. Unbelievable.. I don't actually have a USB-to-serial adapter yet. I was trying to ask before buying something that wouldn't work. I'm dimly aware that USB-to-serial can be problematic in some cases.

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-02 Thread Stan Gammons
On 11/02/14 00:51, Theo de Raadt wrote: On 2 November 2014 06:15, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: A serial console is a serial port on a machine exposing it's boottime console. OpenBSD cannnot use select a USB serial connector as a console tty, no more than it can select some

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2 November 2014 06:51, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org Whatever you want, just try it. Unbelievable.. I don't actually have a USB-to-serial adapter yet. I was trying to ask before buying something that wouldn't work. I'm dimly aware that USB-to-serial can be problematic in some cases.

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 11/02/14 00:51, Theo de Raadt wrote: On 2 November 2014 06:15, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: A serial console is a serial port on a machine exposing it's boottime console. OpenBSD cannnot use select a USB serial connector as a console tty, no more than it can select some

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 06:08, ropers wrote: When I said I wanted to use a USB-only laptop *as* a serial console, what I meant was this: 1. There is a headless computer that has a physical RS-232. This is not the laptop. So what you want to know is if you can run cu -l /dev/cuaU0 on a

uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread ropers
o New uscom(4) driver for simple USB serial adapters. This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask for some time: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native RS-232 port? * Does uscom(4)

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread patrick keshishian
Hi, On 11/1/14, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: o New uscom(4) driver for simple USB serial adapters. This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask for some time: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-11-01, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native RS-232 port? This is impossible. The serial part is on the wrong end. The console code would have to

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-11-01, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native RS-232 port? Yes. I use such a setup on one server. You need to add the appropriate

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread patrick keshishian
On 11/1/14, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: On 2014-11-01, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native RS-232 port? Yes. I use such a

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread ropers
On 2014-11-01, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native RS-232 port? On 1 November 2014 23:51, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: This is impossible.

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2014-11-01, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native RS-232 port? On 1 November 2014 23:51, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: This is impossible.

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread ropers
On 2 November 2014 06:15, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: A serial console is a serial port on a machine exposing it's boottime console. OpenBSD cannnot use select a USB serial connector as a console tty, no more than it can select some random serial pci card. The logic for

Re: uscom/ucom hardware question [was: OpenBSD 5.6 Released]

2014-11-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2 November 2014 06:15, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: A serial console is a serial port on a machine exposing it's boottime console. OpenBSD cannnot use select a USB serial connector as a console tty, no more than it can select some random serial pci card. The logic for