Re: [linuxdc-dev] hi

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On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:05:20 +0100
Lorant Toth <Lor...@gm...> wrote:

> Bill Gatliff's article on LinuxDevices.com does give a pretty good 
> overview. Should be enough methinks. I will try to recompile it too as soon 
> as I get a coder's cable I think [and figure out how to use it to test 
> compiled programs ;]. (I don't really want to burn a new CD each time) - or 
> is there even another way to test LinuxDC compiled programs?
> BTW: Does anybody know a good (german, maybe european) source for a coder's 
> cable?

www.lik-sang.com - a favorite for years. the site's in hong kong but they ship to the US so i assume they'll ship to germany too. i got my Broadband Adapter there a while back. while they may run you quite a pretty penny nowadays, they are quite useful for development and general linux use. i also got my Coder's Cable there, and have never used it, but it's here if i do find the urge to use the serial port instead of ethernet some day. i assume you could set up SLIP for communications, but when linux is booted and [a]getty is running on the serial port, just plug the serial connector into a serial port on your PC, run [a]getty on that serial port, and you've pretty much got a console type link. 

by the by, does anyone have a binary of a ramdisk and kernel to be used to access things like serial and the GDROM without having the cd loaded? i'd like to... access certain gdrom disks of mine and previous methods have failed, largely due to my own incompetence.