[plug] laptop screen/keyboard/mouse 2 control the server?

[Shayne O'Neill]

I'm imagining here com 1 looped to com 2 and a serial -> telnet widget,
which would be great for debugging boot proble.... oh wait :(

Grudgingly I can see the point of it, but it does seem awfully expensive,
and I'm still not sure how gkrellm + skins will work via rs232 ;) ;) ;)

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Brad Campbell wrote:

> bob wrote:
>
> > This might be part of the answer you're looking for
> >
> > http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html
> >
> > "The PC Weasel provides the answer by emulating a video board and keyboard
> > and presenting a serial port to the outside world. Plugged into an
> > available ISA or PCI slot, it takes the characters written by your CPU into
> > its "video" memory and pumps them out its onboard RS-232 port. Characters
> > input by you into the RS-232 port are converted into keyboard scan codes
> > and presented to the motherboard's keyboard connector."
> >
> > Once booted you should be able to network X (as mentioned in other posts to
> > this thread)
>
> That is an incredibly useful bit of kit!
> Incorporate that with a little RS232<->TCP/IP converter that allows you to telnet into the serial
> port and you have a way cool little remote admin tool, just perfect for those remote systems that
> you need to be able to debug down to the level of almost being there.
> I especially like the POST result value recall and on-board WDT.
>
> I just wish I had the job to justify purchasing one to play with :p)
>
> Regards,
> Brad
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