[Rack] minotaur serial ports

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> yes it's plugged from the octopus USB thing.  it came up as a new device
> under dmesg when i plugged it in.  it just didn't hear anything from the
> rfid reader.

Hrm. Did it seem to make a device?
Seems like it, from the dmesg.

> it could be a hardware problem having nothing to do with the USB adaptor.
> either way we certainly have at least one more RS232 to USB adaptor, so we
> shouldn't need to buy more.

I was curious about getting some more so that we can console into some
other parts like the UPS, Switch, AP, etc.

> yes the one that used to go to the RFID reader has been stolen by
> "bikeshed".  (bikeshed should be kicked out for stealing)

> Dana has almost got the RFID reader working!  this is a terrible time for us
> to lose contact with the reader.