On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > > > On 01/05/2016 03:12 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> You can get the converters really cheap on ebay. Every board I have has >>> one permanently installed, so I can always get into the console. I buy >>> them in a 5 unit lot from a china supplier at $5 for the lot. >>> >> Could you please share the name/URL of the supplier you use, please ? >> > > Sure, > > I just ordered to restock my supply: > > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/5PCS-NEW-CP2102-USB-2-0-to-UART-TTL-6PIN-Module-Serial-Converter-Free-Cables-GM/262136735143?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D782c6d9e9b6347849be5bcf90bc3e659%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D271855289144 > > But simply put > > USB TTL > > Into your ebay search and you will find plenty of these. Choose what best > fits your sourcing, quantity, delivery schedule, style. > > All my arm boards have one permanently installed for console access. I > only need 3 wires: TX, RX, GRD. > > This is why I am upset with the pcDuino Nano Lite in that I cannot get one > working on it. I am actually going to rate this board as a "don't buy" for > a server platform becuase of it. I look at this as a much better way to > manage a lot of servers than a KVM box that I use to use with my Intel > servers. > > Hi Robert, If you have an image around, you might want to try the Fedora 22 image on the pcDuino3 Nano Lite. Before F23 the board had a problem in that you couldn't get the uboot information out of HDMI. From what I was told it was only going out the serial console. Maybe with a little tweaking with uboot we can get both HDMI and serial port working. > Yes I can and do use SSH a lot, but there are times when things are not > working that you want that physical connection. > > I also use screen in an SSH session to run a big command, so if I loose my > SSH session, I don't have the command prematurely ended. REALLY worth doing > on a remote 'yum update'! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20160105/80d20faf/attachment-0006.html>