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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. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html