Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Todd Pytel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session > into the box. I don't know if this is going to be feasible... > > I've played a tad with

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway. > Why not run a laplink cable

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:29:21AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA s

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway. > > Never throw working hardwa

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > and might make a decent gateway. Never throw working hardware away :-) > First problem: I can't get external video off the system, not sure why. > Running

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat > > > EOF > > > > ...but this method performs shell ex

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > cat > EOF > > ...but this method performs shell expansions on the content. If you quote EOF, it doesn't: $ cat < $BASH_VERSION > EOF 2.05b.0

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:17:18PM +0300, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > After this point, you can transfer shar archives (which use uudecode, > > hence the above step), allowing for ASCII mode transfers. > > > >

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > After this point, you can transfer shar archives (which use uudecode, > hence the above step), allowing for ASCII mode transfers. > I am missing something. Can't you uuencode every file and transfer it in the same way? >

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm still looking for a good method for doing file transfers. I haven't > used kermit, x/y/zmodem, etc., for about fifteen years, so I'm not sure > what the options are here. minicom supports x/y/zmodem once you install lrzsz on b

Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, and might make a decent gateway. First problem: I can't get external video off the system, not sure why. Running it through an Omniview 4-port KVM. So...I ran a getty on /dev/ttyS0, and am using minicom to access a serial t