Basically I need a sanity check on properly configuring a serial console, so I don't break my machine in the process. I'm replacing my home server in the very near future, and it turns out the "new" ...

Do you have a linux server without a keyboard or monitor? Need to administer the server on-site but don't want to lug over a monitor and keyboard (or kvm)? Then setup the server to output the console ...

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Developers, makers and hobbyists looking for a way to access their Raspberry Pi via a wireless connection might be interested in a new device that has been created by Open Electrons called the ...

Microsoft released a preview on Monday of a new Serial Console command-line tool that's designed to help recover Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) running on Azure infrastructure. The Serial ...

In the last two installments of Driving Me Nuts [LJ August 2002 and October 2002], we covered the tty layer, explaining how to create a minimal tty driver. We also explained some of the various ioctls ...

This hack shows how to make a dumb terminal out of a keyboard, LCD screen, and an 8-bit microcontroller. From time to time, a portable dumb terminal can be handy for when you have to rescue a headless ...

Howdy all-<BR><BR>I'm planning on building a 1U linux server.<BR>What I would like to do to save cash is borrow a video card and cdrom from one of my athlons for install, then build a kernel with ...