Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: map keyboard to stdin | | From | Kevin Holland <> | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:09:46 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 00:52 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2008-07-22 22:55, Kevin Holland wrote: > > >Hi all, > >I have an embedded Linux board that uses 2.6.21, the console is output > >the serial port. How can I set it up so a USB keyboard will be accepted > >as input as well as anything received from the serial port and it will > >be echoed to the output of the serial port as well. Basically I want to > >issue commands either through a terminal program to the embedded board > >or a USB keyboard that is connected to the board, but I still want to > >see what was typed on the keyboard out the serial terminal. I have > >enabled USB HID support in the Kernel as well. > > Try booting with console=tty0 console=ttyS0 > I am not sure whether this will accept input from both (that's for you > to test), though it definitely outputs to both.
This method doesn't seem to work on my setup since I'm only using the serial port as the console, and have no frame buffer. I can cat /dev/input/event0 and get what appears to be scan codes when I press keys on my keyboard. How can I translate this into specific commands for my serial console?
Thanks
Kevin
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