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

[Lisa]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:55:48AM -0800, Scott Hess wrote:

>> 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 :-).

I found one that works just fine in Central Computer.

I looked at it just a few minutes ago and, unfortunately, it has
almost zero markings on it and I no longer have the "blister
pack" that it came in.

I can say that it's black and not much bigger than a USB memory
stick and it just has a DB9 on one end.

I plugged it in and it worked just find on the first try on both
a windoze and a linux box.

Lisa