[wplug] dumb terminal question

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Carl Benedict assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I'm not sure if you are looking for a way to login via the serial port
| to your servers

This would be fine, but I don't have a serial port on the laptop. I'd have
to get some kind of usb to serial port adapter.

|, or if you want something more robust like a remote X
| session.  I'm not sure how/if you could do the latter without using the
| network. If so, surely someone else has wanted to do this as well?  Or
| perhaps you are thinking of a more KVM-like solution?

I'm not looking for a remote X solution. I can already do that over the
network. I'm looking for a solution where I can use the keyboard and video
of my laptop to access the server when something goes wrong and the network
isn't an option.

| As far as login via serial - if you are running Linux on the Powerbook,
| you could use minicom to login as you would via telnet/ssh/console.

I'm running OS 10.3.8, but I assume I could probably install minicom with
fink. I guess the only hiccup here is finding a serial to usb adaptor.

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