RE: Console on USB

["Jagadeeswaran R." <jagadeeswaran.r@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hello Michael,

Thanks for your info.

> Well, if you have a USB device controller on your custom 
> board, you may 
> use the "Ethernet USB gadget" driver. Once networking works 
> fine between 
> the host and the target, you can connect to the target through ssh.

How do we connect to windows XP PC thru "Ethernet USB"?
I am not sure whether windows supports this?

regards,
Jagadees


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Opdenacker [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:04 PM
> To: Jagadeeswaran R.
> Cc: linux-arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Console on USB
> 
> 
> Hi Jagadees
> 
> >We are generally using serial port for Linux Debugging / as 
> console on SMDK-ARM boards.
> >but we want to avoid using serial port on our custom board.
> >Can we use USB port and some (?) apllication on PC side 
> instead of serial port and minicom?
> >  
> >
> Well, if you have a USB device controller on your custom 
> board, you may 
> use the "Ethernet USB gadget" driver. Once networking works 
> fine between 
> the host and the target, you can connect to the target through ssh.
> 
> This wouldn't be a console though, and you'd still need the 
> serial port 
> for kernel bootup debugging.
> 
> There's also the "Serial USB gadget" driver, but there is no serial 
> console support yet.
> 
> See http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/  and Documentation/usb in the 
> kernel sources for more details about USB gadget drivers...
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Michael.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Opdenacker
> http://free-electrons.com
> 
> 

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