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

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:21:43 -0800, Bill Bell wrote:

>  "They" meaning all serial pci cards?  I would think, in that case, the
>  problem
> resides with the Dapper Drake LiveCD than with the hardware.

This is indeed the case, and the lesson here is that one always needs to
be careful what expectations one has of off-the-shelf software, regardless
of the quality of the hardware.

>  Can you post which cards you had the failures with so that the OP can
>  shorten
> his search?

They were standard UART PCI cards, and qualifying any further would
achieve no useful end, because the kernel largely can't distinguish
amongst most of them, anyway.

If you value any "Use what the programmers use" reasoning, you'll use a
USB adapter and not an add-on card.