On 01/05/2016 09:48 AM, Troy Dawson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com > <mailto: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. No pcDuino3 uboot in F22. The only uboots are: A10-OLinuXino-Lime beagle highbank panda udoo_quad A10s-OLinuXino-M beaglebone jetson-tk1 paz00 uevm A13-OLinuXino cm_fx6 Mele_A1000 riotboard wandboard_dl A13-OLinuXinoM Cubieboard Mele_A1000G smdkv310 wandboard_quad A20-OLinuXino_MICRO Cubieboard2 Mini-X snow wandboard_solo arndale Cubietruck Mini-X-1Gb snowball Bananapi db-mv784mp-gp origen trimslice > 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'! > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20160105/612752d7/attachment-0006.html>