[SWLUG] Serial terminal echoing(and things)

[Kris Zani]

can't help I'm afraid.  Good with PHP, and most other prog languages.

would like to see a few piccies of this though.  Sounds like a 
thoroughly difficult and mainly pointless exercise - right up my street!!

good luck

Kris

Steve Anderson wrote:

> Hello all
>
> Moving away from the flame war about IRC (FWIW, I hate all chat 
> devices equally) and toward the use and celebration of all things 
> Linux, here's a thing I'd like a hand with.
>
> I've now got a fully functioning Linux device. It's going to be the 
> most powerful alarm clock on the planet, ever. (Give or take.) It's 
> utterly silent, running on a fanless Mini-ITX mobo with a fanless PSU, 
> booting Ubuntu (in server mode) off a Compact Flash card and, thanks 
> to ndiswrapper, it's hooked up to my LAN wirelessly.
>
> The vast majority of the time, it's not going to have a monitor 
> connected. The clock display itself is going to be a backlit Nokia 
> 3310 screen hooked up to the parallel port, and I've got a 24x8 
> alphanumeric LCD hooked up to the serial port which can be treated as 
> a VT100 display. Most of the time this second display will be 
> displaying RSS gubbins, email details, that sort of thing. However, 
> occasionally I might like to use it as a terminal display. I'd like to 
> be able to plug a keyboard into the device and see a command prompt on 
> the LCD. Anybody tried anything like this before? Is there a simple 
> way to flick this sort of thing on and off, so that a seperate process 
> (the one actually running the clock) could invoke this as and when 
> needed by me?
>
> All input, as always, is gratefully etc.
>
> Steve
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