A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:57:53PM +0200, Hans Beckérus wrote: > Thanks for the quick response guys. > Yes, putty is cross-platform, but I am actually running putty on > Windows ;) It connects over the serial device on my laptop to the > board running Linux. But Greg, you actually triggered me to check my > hardware configuration and guess what? I was using the wrong kind of > cable :) I used a simple male-female converter when I in fact had to > use a cable that swapped Rx/Tx. My bad! But I have yet one more issue > now. If I tell Linux to use my ttyUSB0 as console device on the boot > cmdline, would it actually be able to start it in time? Start in time for what? You can use USB to serial devices as console devices just fine. I really don't recommend them, but if you have no other way to get a console, it's better than nothing. > I am running with a 3.6 kernel btw. That's a bit out-of-date :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
