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

[Ajit Natarajan]

Akkana Peck wrote:
 > Years ago (on 2.4 kernels) I used to use a Keyspan PDA serial
 > adaptor to talk to a Palm device. It worked great using code that
 > was already in the kernel, no special fiddling needed.

The Keyspan USB-Serial converter is still available. 
<http://keyspan.com/products/usa19hs/>.  Driver support exists in the 
kernel.org kernels and in most distributions.  However, Debian and 
Ubuntu have decided to remove support for Keyspan from their kernels due 
to the license.  <http://www.keyspan.com/downloads-files/developer/linux/>

Here's how you get the Keyspan driver on Ubuntu:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/KeyspanDriver>

I've used Keyspan on my PC with Fedora and it works great.

Ajit