[wplug] Remote Serial Terminal

[Weber, Larry A]

I would like to use an old laptop as a dumb terminal.  The laptops I have
are too old or have too small of a hard drive to run Linux.  My big noisy
desktop sits in the basement.  I want a wired connection that would give me
a command line interface from a laptop to the desktop PC.

I have seen this done with Linux embedded on PC/104 CPUs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Vanco, Don [SMTP:don.vanco at agilysys.com]
> Sent:	Monday, December 15, 2003 1:33 PM
> To:	'wplug at wplug.org'
> Subject:	RE: [wplug] Remote Serial Terminal
> 
> wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> > I am running RedHat on a desktop PC.  (I can use either 8, 9 or
> > Fedora) 
> > 
> > I would like to be able to access the PC via a remote serial
> > terminal.  Does anyone know if I will need to modify the kernel to do
> > this? I am assuming this would be an RS-232 link.  
> No - you just need to add a getty to that port to allow a login.
> 
> > Is it possible to
> > easily do this with an ethernet link?
> 	I'm not clear on what you're doing here - are you looking to add a
> "dumb terminal" or are you looking to add access for another computer on a
> network?  If it's the latter, I believe that Linux has some tools to offer
> connectivity via Ethernet.
> 
> Don
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