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Re: [LUG] Serial port (absense of)

 

Tony Sumner wrote:
> I have a little gadget (for controlling the water heating) that plugs
> in to a serial port but modern laptops don't have these. I bought a
> USB-serial converter and this comes with drivers for Red Hat 7, 8 and
> 9.  By a strange twist of fate I still have the discs containing Red
> Hat 8 (those were the days) so I installed the it and the driver works
> (this laptop is dedicated to the one task). There must be other ways
> of solving this problem and I'd be interested to know what they
> are. Maplin sell a card-bus device with serial ports but they say this
> is windows only. Does anyone have experience with the Keyspan device?
>
> Tony Sumner
I bought a USB-RS232C adapter (from Trago a few years ago) so I could 
connect my serial-less laptop to Cisco equipment for 
configuring/troubleshooting. I found that it "just works" under every 
flavour of Linux I threw at it - no need for any "specific" drivers.


Have you tried using it on anything other than RH 8?

Grant.

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