Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:57:00 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine |
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Hi!
> > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? > > > > Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting > > the oops, I need to be dialed out. That takes out COM1. I never gt my > > COM2 to work (can't figure out what's wrong. doesn't work under windows > > either). So that's out. I have a Keyspan USB PDA adapter that I use for > > my Palm Vx which shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0. > > > > I guess if usb serial can't be used I'll try duplicating the oops w/o > > being dialed out. > > I don't know if /dev/ttyUSBX would work, but I think it would. People > have successfully run consoles through the usb-serial drivers, but I'm > not sure if the oops main console requires something different (like > registering itself actually as a console?)
No, you can't put kernel console on usb. Kernel console has to work irq-less. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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