[Cialug] Connecting to Serial Console w/ USB

[Nathan C. Smith]

In that case, if you are using something like minicom, can't the ${/dev/usb}
device be substituted for the serial device?

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris K. [mailto:lister at kulish.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:42 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Connecting to Serial Console w/ USB
> 
> Its the laptop I am trying to connect with that does not have the 
> serial, only has USB.  The server has serial ports in abundance.
> 
> Nathan Stien wrote:
> > On 1/25/07, lister at kulish.com <lister at kulish.com> wrote:
> >> But has anyone successfully connected to a serial console 
> on a server 
> >> via
> >> a usb/serial dongle?
> >
> > I have not done it, but I can imagine how I'd do it.
> >
> >> I need to hookup to a server with my laptop, but of course 
> it doesnt 
> >> have
> >> a serial port.  Go figure.
> >
> > The server doesn't have a serial port?  Or the laptop?  
> Since the case
> > of the laptop not having a serial port would be trivial, I 
> assume you
> > mean the server lacks the port.
> >
> >> Laptop is Windows based.  Server is already setup for 
> console access.
> >
> > When you plug in the serial dongle to the server's USB 
> port, it should
> > attach to a device node like /dev/ttyUSB0.  You might do a "dmesg |
> > grep ttyUSB" to see if you can find out which one it is.  If it
> > doesn't show up, it may be that your USB-serial device 
> doesn't have a
> > driver in the server's kernel.
> >
> > You would then go into your /etc/inittab and put something 
> like this,
> > assuming you use getty:
> >
> > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyUSB0 9600 vt100
> >
> > Replace ttyUSB0 with the appropriate device node.  At least 
> on Debian,
> > there are some helpful comments in the file to make it easy to
> > understand.  You'll have to reboot or otherwise work back 
> through some
> > runlevels.  Read the man pages for inittab and getty to get 
> some more
> > thorough insights into this.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I am also just telling you how I would try to 
> do this if I
> > had to, and I have not actually verified that this works.  :-)  If I
> > have steered you wrong, please let me know!
> >
> > - nps
> >
> 
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