On Thursday 17 March 2005 14:41, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:07:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > since I don't have a 9-pin serial port on my laptop I've been trying to > > connect it with the testing machine over a 25-pin cable (on a 25-pin > > port), which, according to the Serial-HOWTO is doable in theory but > > doesn't seem that easy to do in practice. Setserial reports that the > > ports are ok: > > On laptops, 25-pin ports tend to be parallel, rather than serial. At > least, that's my experience. And this is the truth, actually. It is :( a parallel port. > > [snip] > > > but minicom or other serial line communication utils do not send or > > receive any chars. Any ideas? > > Hook a printer up to the 25-pin port (the other end of the cable will > most likely have 36 pins), then use (I think, it's been a while) > /dev/lp0 as your console device, rather than /dev/ttyS#. This assumes > that your kernel has parallel console support compiled in, and that > the parallel port support is compiled in (as opposed to being a module). > > And if you do the above, make sure to have lots of paper handy. Also, > this trick probably won't work with all printers, but it stands a good > chance of working. This is an option but I don't have a printer right now so I think I'll go with another idea a guy gave me on our laptop forum - USB to serial adapter, it is relatively cheap (~20â in Germany) and trivial to install. Still, thanks for your help, I'll be reporting as soon as I get the gadget.
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