I'll bet you could actually build a USB serial to USB HID device. There
are some companies that make a tty level serial to USBHID keyboard chip
so you could take a USB-serial chip cross connect the tty-serial sides
of the chip and one computer would see it as a USB serial port and the
other would see it as a USB keyboard.
Be a little fiddly getting the two serial setting in the middle correct
but should be doable.
Interesting mini-embedded project.
Cheers,
Davidm
Alan Stern wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
I don't think you'll find an off the shelf cable for doing
that. Most of them look like network devices to each of
the computers.
I couldn't really tell. I saw this
http://www.sewelld.com/UsbCable.asp
and assumed it was the USB equivalent of a null modem cable.
Maybe it's just ethernet over USB - it _is_ called a bridge.
Another approach might be to use two USB-Serial converters and connect
them via a null-modem cable. Roundabout, but at least it will give you a
serial connection. If the host computer runs Linux, you will be able to
log in over it; I don't know about Windows.
Alan Stern
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