[ILUG] Dodgy USB ISDN adapters

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:58:43PM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:

> >>BTW, on the ISDN adapter Philip has, whilst there are no Linux drivers 
> >>for it WinBond has a pretty decent PDF
> > Can you not talk to those things with AT commands - I know you can with
> > Elsa's Microlink USB adapter so it's just like using a serial TA (and no, I
> > won't go there now)
> 
> I'm not sure if the chip supports AT command directly or not (I suspect 
> not) but first you'd have to get those AT commands to the device. There 
> is a USB spec for serial devices, in the same way there's a spec for 
> keyboard & mouse (HID), but nobody seems to want to implement it for 
> serial devices so most devices need their own device driver. Same goes 

Well support for syncing a Handspring Visor to Linux is done by serial over
USB. Works OK but I haven't managed to get Jpilot to play yet, and it was a
bastard to get going - on my box it was because I was using uhci instead of
usb-uhci - obvious, really :-) And it was equally obvious where you can
change this.



Niall