On 15 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1160959806.052610.153870@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.c om>, gregg dot drwho8
atsign gmail dot com wrote:

>Question: Can anyone supply a suggestion for allowing a terminal
>(terminal program running outside) to be connected to a serial port?

>I am developing an application that will eventually be installed on an
>embedded system, and as it happens the embedded system will be based on
>Slackware.

Are you asking if you can run a serial console off the serial port on
the embedded system? If so, yes. See

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 287028 Mar 31 2003 Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO

>I will also be creating a unique hardware item that will need to be
>connected to the system and again it will be using the serial port.
>Parallel port attachment is a possibility but the original design
>called for a serial port access to the system.

Both the serial and parallel ports can be used _in_place_of_ a network
card - see

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 46049 Apr 26 2001 PLIP
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 183087 Jul 19 2000 PPP-HOWTO

but I think you are talking about connecting a "dumb terminal" to the
embedded system for remote display/control. The Remote-Serial-Console
HOWTO is for that. You may also want to check the comp.os.linux.embedded
newsgroup.

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