[Novalug] Bluetooth Serial and Console Experience?

[Matt Ahrens]

Brandon,

Looks like that will work out fine if you have your consoles appropriately
configured.  If you have a bluetooth stack configured on your system you can
use hcitool to identify and rfcomm to connect this device to a bluetooth
device.

While I have not done this with consoles, I have done it with other serial
devices (bluetooth + GPS), it works like a champ for them.

I generally use a /etc/rfcomm.conf file for those devices so I can say
"rfcomm connect 0" rather than including channel and baddr information in
the rfcomm connection string.

Hope that helps,

Matt

On 5/19/07, Brandon Saxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have several headless boxes that I manage using ssh.
> Sometimes, I cannot ssh into the boxes, so I have to
> hook up a monitor and keyboard and all that jazz to
> see what's going on.
>
> I was wondering if it would be possible to use a
> Bluetooth serial module (something like this
> http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&Item=GBS301)
> on these boxes and connect to CONSOLES using a
> bluetooth adapter on my main host?
>
> FWIW, the Bluetooth adapter in my Notebook (winxp)
> displays 11 serial ports (COMx) in device manager. I
> think it would be neat to be able to open up the
> consoles of several boxes at once over a wireless
> connection.
>
> Does anybody have any experience with serial bluetooth
> and linux? Furthermore, any experience using it with a
> serial console?
>
> Thanks!
>   Brandon
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