[svlug] Any recommendations for a USB-serial dongle which will work on Ubuntu?

[Scott Hess]

On Feb 7, 2008 3:19 PM, Bill Bell <billnspm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2008 12:38:25, scott at doubleu.com wrote:
> > I have a couple devices which want me to talk to their serial port,
> > but serial ports are going out of fashion, so I figure I should find a
> > USB device to do this for me. But as far as I can tell, getting such
> > a device working under Linux (from the USB end!) can be pretty
> > hit-or-miss.
>
> Why not just install the required serial port?

Because my laptop doesn't have a PCI port.  It has PCMCIA, but who
knows whether my next laptop will?  I have other systems which have
few or no available PCI slots.  I could sure work around that by
ssh'ing to a system which can do what I want it to do, but if there
are reasonable USB/serial dongles, that maybe is more flexible.  I
don't want to end up with a system entirely dedicated to act as a
terminal server for this case.

BTW, this isn't any sort of embedded sensor board or anything like
that I want to talk to, so I don't need fine control of the
serial-port signals.  The other end is just a headless Linux box with
a bog-standard serial port.

-scott