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Have changed my adapter to a FTDI based one. Everything works perfectly ! Maybe the prolific driver is faulty or the unit I had. I don't know. Thank you everybody for your help.

Thank you Noway2 for your tips. However, I haven't got an oscilloscope and an Isolator is high priced. It's just a home server running on a 200$ hardware you know. Don't want to buy an extra 50$ Isolator... So I'll try first BadBigBen solution and will ask tomorrow for a refund of the USB to...

Serial cable is 2m long and the USB to serial adapter include a USB cable of 1.5m. The two computers are connected to the same power source. Any idea ?

Thanks for your help. This thing is driving me crazy ! Today, after unplugging and replugging the USB to serial adapter on the laptop (client), the serial connection stop working in both ways... I receive garbage now... I try setserial to be sure everything (baud rate, parity etc.) are ok both...

I've crossed pin 2 and 3, on the server serial port, on the client serial port. I've done it again with the cable attached to server port and same thing to client port. It echo back what I send. However, I haven't tested the cable because it can't be opened and I haven't got a multimeter to...

I've double checked. Same settings client and server side. Moreover, why everything can be OK one way (server to client) and not the other... ? It puzzled me...

Hello, I've got a home server running ubuntu 10.0.4. It have no monitor or keyboard. So I want to access it from a serial console. (I use SSH currently but if something goes wrong, I need to be able to do something... so serial console seems a fine thing). OK, so on the server, I tell grub to...