Depending on how bad it's crashed,
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Usb_networking#Gentoo should work. If you set
it up right, once plugging in your FR with USB you can ssh to your server
and do what you need. I found this *very* handy to issue a reboot, or
making minor edits to config files, but an on screen keyboard really blows
for anything more than a few lines of text.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:32 PM, stefan harjes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I am working with a monitor/keyboard less gentoo server, which I run over
> wireless with ssh. From time to time, I
> manage to crash my gentoo box, so that it will no longer boot my network.
> So then I have to get up, unplug everything, move to a different location
> with a monitor and a keyboard.
>
> Just now I got the idea to use my rather small freerunner as 'monitor'
> i.e. as serial terminal, which I simply can plug in. Has anybody done this
> already?
>
> I think if I use kernel-module-g-serial, I do get a serial device, but I
> can not use minicom on the freerunner on this device.
> Any hints?
>
> Best
>
> Stefan
>
>
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