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

[Scott Hess]

On Feb 7, 2008 8:24 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> 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.
>
> This very question has been asked on this very list before:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.svlug/7673

That thread was where I got the recommendation for "Airlink 101", but
the overall thread didn't really inspire confidence.

> The most popular chipsets found in random adapters from random vendors
> appear to be PL2303, FTDI, and MosChip, in that order. Any of them should
> suit you just fine.

OK, so this makes it sound like on this front things are more-or-less
like flash-card readers, where there are only a few commodity chipsets
so everything works more often than not.  Which is plenty good enough
to justify a purchase next time I'm in the relevant retail center :-).

Thanks,
scott