In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

I have Redhat 7.3 installed, and i want to pump the display out the serial port. How can i do this? I am using grub. I can use lilo if need be. I know its pretty simple i have done it long ago with ...

This hack shows how to make a dumb terminal out of a keyboard, LCD screen, and an 8-bit microcontroller. From time to time, a portable dumb terminal can be handy for when you have to rescue a headless ...

Do you have a linux server without a keyboard or monitor? Need to administer the server on-site but don't want to lug over a monitor and keyboard (or kvm)? Then setup the server to output the console ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

I had a thread over in the Programmer's Symposium, but I think the line of questioning has turned more into a kernel issue.<br><br>I have been tasked with getting response time for writing a single ...