On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:59, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> Not a chance. Null-modem adapters are widely available, inexpensive,
> and easily made, too, so insist that your helpers obtain one.

Ok. I just mailed a db9 null-modem cable to them.

>
> What you probably want is simply access to the serial console, for
> which you need a null-modem cable (and a port on a machine to which
> you have access). With that, you can see the boot messages, reboot, or
> even break into "db". "kgdb" is rather more ambitious, and only useful
> if you're going to debug the kernel.

So I'll be able to do this without KGDB and using minicom on the other one ?

>
> Frederick

Thanks,
Mihai