Daniel Dalton wrote: > - a supported usb to serial cable for linux that works with the kernel? > (If so could you please provide a model number or brand?) Or even better > if you know where I can get one of these from?
I bought two of "Parallax USB to 232 Serial Adapter" recently and they work very well for me. Here is a URL to where I bought them. http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H3284.html It is a very small PC board with a mini USB B connector on one side and a 9-pin male rs-232 connector on the other side. It has a clear tube shell around it and the components can be seen through it giving it an "engineering" use look. Use a commonly available USB A to mini-B cable to connect it to the USB port. It uses the ftdi_sio driver natively in the Linux kernel. When attached to a system udev will create /dev/ttyUSB0 automatically. It works very well for me. Other products have been available that use the same FTDI chip but are packaged in different types of packaging. I think that anything that uses the FTDI chips will be compatible with the drivers in the Linux kernel. Hope that helps, Bob
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