I wrote a small server to make the serial devices in Linux available via ethernet. It is called e2s (for Ethernet to serial) version 0.2 is now on the site, it has some improvements, for example time in output for logging.
You use it for example like this: e2s -d /dev/ttyUSB1 -b 19200 -p 8192
That starts a server listening for connections on port 8192, and forwarding any data it sees to / from the /dev/ttyUSB1 serial port adaptor.
Now you can connect to /dev/ttyUSB1 from anywhere in the world!
To test, I am running it on a my swr box, but the transmitter is off, so you can do little harm (I hope)
You can try it: telnet 81.207.135.196 8192 Once connected in telnet type: control ] A prompt should appear, then type: mode char Hit ENTER twice Now you are 1 to 1 connected to my swr box, this one:
Type h for help
I have compiled e2s without problems for PC, and also for MIPS (Linksys WAP).
Hope this is useful for those who use some of my PIC projects, this is version 0.2, so strange things may happen, and things may change...