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Ross Bearman wrote: > What's your usual distribution? > Regards, Ross Bearman > > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Tony Sumner <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 have a debian 1.2 cd in my archive >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org Next Lug meet : Thursday 31st July @ 7:30 onwards - Paignton rugby / cricket club August 16th Exeter Fun day event, See list or e-mail Rob Beard for details, any help would be great. visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- 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