Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1786 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

> On 11/15/2011 02:40 PM, Per Jessen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > Jim Henderson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:33:16 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Any machine you would want to hook up a serial console to :-)
> > > > Although the cable in question would not be really useful for that
> > > > - maybe as an extension.
> > >
> > > Of course, that would imply the machine has a serial port on it to
> > > begin with - seems rarer and rarer these days.
> >
> > On office desktops and consumer PCs they're definitely an endangered
> > species, but e.g. HP Proliant servers still have them.
>
> And there is a serial/usb dongle that will allow you to still usr
> serial devices.

Yeah, the lack of a serial port on laptops probably prompted development
of those. 

> At least I have one that I may auction off sometime in 
> the future. :-)

Does it work with openSUSE?
 

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Per Jessen, Zürich (3.6°C)

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