[ILUG] OTish: USB question

[Ronan Waide]

On October 16, lhecking at nmrc.ie said:
> 
>  I was looking for a USB to serial adapter the other day, and actually
>  found one on the net. However, it appears that the adapter requires a
>  software driver which, guess, is only available for Windoze :-/
> 
>  Is anyone aware of an adapter that would just work without a software
>  driver? I'd like to use my Linux/OBSD laptop as a serial port terminal

There's a whole slew of them. First off, check the linux-usb website
(I think it's linux-usb.org, but I could be wrong) to see what you can
find. Secondly, check the USB part of the Kernel
configuration. There's a long list there. And thirdly, there's a
generic driver which works with a lot of otherwise unspecified
hardware.

Cheers,
Waider.
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