On 6/26/06, Daniel Henninger <jadestorm at nc.rr.com> wrote: > > I don't own a 770 myself yet, but a friend from work got one and I'm > sold once I have the money in hand to purchase one... but in the > process of testing it out I showed it around and generated a floor > full of interesting. *grin* That said, one question that came up is > if we could get a mini-usb -> (whatever magic) -> serial port adapter > and use it with the Nokia 770 as a portable terminal for our servers > and such at work. I haven't seen any terminal related applications > yet, so at some level I'm simply wondering if it's possible > conceptually or if there is no way the hardware can support this? > I'm using one of these adapters with the 770 and everything worked out of the box. The usb-serial module is already present in the the kernel and it's automatically loaded when you plug in the adapter (provided you use a hub for the powering the usb port). If you want to use python with pyserial you need just to reintroduce the termios module that had been stripped out, but it's a 5' work -- Fabio Forno, PhD Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Jabber ID: xmpp:ff at kamin.polito.it ** Try Jabber http://www.jabber.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060626/dc42ce2a/attachment.htm
