USB/Serial Cable

[Alan Dayley]

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Ray Cantwell wrote:
> Do any of you guys know if a usb-serial adapter cable will work under 
> any unixs. I have searched and come up with bupkiss.
> Thanks Ray

Yes, based on my experience with one very old (1998?) and two newer
units.  They appear to "just work" depending on how old your USB support
is.  If your kernel/distro is newer than a few years old, it should work
just fine.

A word of caution about software (aka XON-XOFF) flow control: It seems
that the flow control signals when using this take too long through the
driver layers to throttle the data properly.  If you are doing serial at
a higher speed, like 115K, you will drop data when using software flow
control.  This issue hold true when using the serial-to-USB adapter
under both Linux or Windows, in my experience.

Alan


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