On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 14:24, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Using USB instead of the serial line or the network card would be
> the best IMHO, because:
>
> * many machines have network cards, but all machines have USB
> (and it's gonna stay this way for some time)
>
> * the USB stack seems simpler than the net stack +
> (eventualy) pcmcia + network card driver.
>
> Maybe the 'simpler' USB protocols (usbkbd and usbmouse) could be
> used for this, I don't know...
USB hardware and protocols are master-slave, meaning that you can not
connect another computer to this one directly. What USB *device* would
you want to see connected?
Of course, a USB-Serial adapter would work, and you can connect any
serial terminal, but then we are back to using serial ports; it's just
you will need a different driver for that.
Dmitri
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