On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 10:32:52PM +0100, ropers wrote: > > o New uscom(4) driver for simple USB serial adapters. > > This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask for some time: > > * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter > as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native > RS-232 port?
Yes. > * Does uscom(4) make this any easier/is it more compatible than ucom(4)? > * If I buy a random USB-to-serial dongle, is it likely that it'll work > with either uscom(4) or ucom(4)? If not, does anyone have any hardware > recommendations, i.e. what do you use? I have got a cable labled ST-Lab USB-SERIAL-4 purchased from Dustin in Sweden, and it works well. I do not remember what device driver attaches to it and have not tried any other cables so I can not say even if it happens that some cable does not work due to e.g Windows-only drivers... > > Thanks for any input > > regards, > ropers -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
