[Gllug] Manual arp configuration for usb networking

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Tue May 23 10:53:16 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:16:32AM +0200, salsaman wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
> 
> >[2] Grrr. Pesky modern computers. WTF is the point of a laptop without a
> >   fscking serial port? How else am I meant to fix a broken server in the
> >   datacentre? Does anyone have any recommendations for USB->serial or
> >   PCMCIA->serial solutions that work under Linux?
> > 
> If you have pcmcia, why not just put a wireless card on both machines ?

Not very helpful if you have a server which won't boot, but which has iLO
or some other form of debug console running on a serial port to which
you need to gain access.

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