>> On 2014-11-01, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter >>> as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native >>> RS-232 port? > >On 1 November 2014 23:51, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: >> This is impossible. The serial part is on the wrong end. The >> console code would have to drive a USB device with all the USB bus >> complexity. > >I'm having one heck of a hard time understanding why it's impossible, >or maybe we're talking at cross-purposes. >Maybe I've expressed myself imprecisely or incorrectly. Are we even >talking about the same thing? > >When I said I wanted to use a USB-only laptop *as* a serial console, >what I meant was this:
A "serial console" is a serial port on a machine exposing it's boottime console. OpenBSD cannnot use select a USB serial connector as a console tty, no more than it can select some random serial pci card. The logic for finding the device happens too late. If this is the other way around, then the laptop is just doing serial. What's console about it. It is just talking serial, to something else which is console. You don't need the word console, nor do we need to know the colour of the cable you choose. Naddy is precise. You used the wrong words.
