Hi Miles, On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 04:59:38PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Short of buying a remote KVM, it occurs to me that it might be possible > to cross-connect the serial ports on the two computers - using a terminal > program on one, to access the other, and vice versa. This works fine; I do it all the time when testing hardware. > Has anybody done this? Any suggestions on where to start - both re. > cabling (USB vs. serial cross-over), and/or software? These days it becomes easier to have a bunch of USB ports than a bunch of serial ports, so USB/serial converters are cheap and useful and I've yet to find one that doesn't just work under Debian. I used to use minicom, but lately I use "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600" or whatever. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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