Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-08 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > I simply bought a USB serial adaptor. The cheapest that Bamboo Charlie > > had in stock. > > > > It just worked. It was so low priced that if it didn't I'd have just > > tossed it in the spare parts box and bought another. AFAIK most of them > > work. >

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-08 Thread Henning Brauer
* Mattieu Baptiste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 12:28]: > Anyone has succeed in sending a break with an uplcom ? I have the same > model you described and it never worked with my unit. all usb-cereals i ever bought (quite a few) turned out to be uplcoms, and sending breaks Just Works on all of

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-08 Thread mufurcz
mufurcz wrote: Greetings, It seems that the dumbing down of laptops is a constant preoccupation/sadistic joy for the laptop manufacturers, and the RS-232/422/485 protocols are destined to be extinct by them. My daily work requires to access a number headless *NIX systems in different places

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-08 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Dec 8, 2007 11:39 AM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007/12/07 22:31, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > uark(4) Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based USB serial > adapter > > You don't want this one if you might need to send a break. > > Most I've seen are uplcom (good sup

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/07 22:31, Theo de Raadt wrote: > uark(4) Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based USB serial adapter You don't want this one if you might need to send a break. Most I've seen are uplcom (good support in most OS, you'll find some if you search title&description on ebay for PL23

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > These units are really cheap. Just buy them. If they don't work, > > send them to us, and we'll try to improve support for the remaining > > ones. > > But skip the Keyspans, right? Heh. Yes, don't send us any non-free-requiring usb serial devices. They're basically non-existant in the mark

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-07 Thread Greg Thomas
On Dec 7, 2007 8:43 PM, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I simply bought a USB serial adaptor. The cheapest that Bamboo Charlie > > had in stock. > > > > It just worked. It was so low priced that if it didn't I'd have just > > tossed it in the spare parts box and bought another. AFAIK m

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I simply bought a USB serial adaptor. The cheapest that Bamboo Charlie > had in stock. > > It just worked. It was so low priced that if it didn't I'd have just > tossed it in the spare parts box and bought another. AFAIK most of them > work. There are roughly 20 USB serial variants on the marke

Re: RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-07 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:26:53 +1100, mufurcz wrote: >Greetings, > >It seems that the dumbing down of laptops is a constant >preoccupation/sadistic joy for the >laptop manufacturers, and the RS-232/422/485 protocols are destined to >be extinct by them. > >My daily work requires to access a number

RS-232 serial PCMCIA cards and/or USB 2.0 serial adapaters

2007-12-07 Thread mufurcz
Greetings, It seems that the dumbing down of laptops is a constant preoccupation/sadistic joy for the laptop manufacturers, and the RS-232/422/485 protocols are destined to be extinct by them. My daily work requires to access a number headless *NIX systems in different places, so I need the