Re: Using nslu2 as remote console

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

2011/3/6 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>:

> 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.