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

[Bill Bell]

> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:59:25 -0800
> From: scott at doubleu.com
> To: billnspm at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [svlug] Any recommendations for a USB-serial dongle which will work on Ubuntu?
> CC: svlug at lists.svlug.org
>
> On Feb 7, 2008 3:19 PM, Bill Bell  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. 

 Ahh, information not available in your first post.  That might have saved us both
some time. It appears < I may be wrong due to lack of information> that you are
trying to get older software to run on newer hardware that no longer supports the
older software due to  some manufacturer's idea of progress.

>It has PCMCIA, but who
> knows whether my next laptop will? 

 Why would you buy hardware that did not support the programs you want to run?

>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. 

 That I don't know. You asked for any other recommendations.  I gave you what I
know about.  Sorry it wasn't what you were looking for.

>I don't want to end up with a system entirely dedicated to act as a
> terminal server for this case.

 Hopefully you will be able to find a solution before it comes to that.

>
> 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

 Good luck.

      BIll
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