With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

Managing large numbers of Linux and UNIX systems takes a lot of organization, automation and careful use of technology. A significant chunk of one's time as a system administrator is spent building ...

Ok, my question is how do I find out which serial port would be supported under Redhat 7.1. My mobo doesn't have the serial (25-pins) port so I think I need to get a PCI-based Serial port? And would ...

In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

I have Redhat 7.3 installed, and i want to pump the display out the serial port. How can i do this? I am using grub. I can use lilo if need be. I know its pretty simple i have done it long ago with ...