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From: "Adam Carter" <Adam.Carter@optus.com.au>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:08:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39080C5B7143BC4780067586F60979C459CF47@msgprdmbxw002.optus.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802141714.58733.mike@gaima.co.uk>

> Obviously we can easily get a USB to serial adapter

You can still get laptops with real serial ports (HP sell them). You
might want to investigate whether you can manipulate the USB serial
adapter to your requirements. I tried once with setserial and it didn't
work - I havent had time to look into it further (potentially driver
dependent??). Minicom works fine for configuring routers/unix boxes
however.

absydos adam # file /dev/ttyUSB0
/dev/ttyUSB0: character special (188/0)
absydos adam # setserial /dev/ttyUSB0
Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 17:14 [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo Mike Williams
2008-02-14 22:58 ` David Relson
2008-02-14 23:29   ` Mike Williams
2008-02-15  1:21     ` David Relson
2008-02-15  2:39       ` Iain Buchanan
2008-02-15 11:11         ` Florian Philipp
2008-02-15 13:45       ` OT: Cheap PS2/USB keyboard/mouse adaptors. WAS: " Stroller
2008-02-16  0:29         ` David Relson
2008-02-15  0:08 ` Adam Carter [this message]

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