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

[Bill Bell]

> To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
> From: daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:09:19 -0800
> Subject: Re: [svlug] Any recommendations for a USB-serial dongle which will work on Ubuntu?
>
> 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.

 True.

>
>> 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.

 Well, the programmers never did make me privy to what they were using,
so I just used what worked for me.

         Bill



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