recommend serial-to-usb adapter?

[Alan Dayley]

The Linux drivers for USB-to-serial converters are pretty robust now
days.  I have seen ones from Tripplite and others work well.

Take care with your connection parameters, however.  If you use
software flow control (a.k.a. Xon-Xoff) and baud rate above 19.2K you
will have issues with long data streams.  It is as if the flow control
is not fast enough through the driver layers and bytes will drop.
This happens with a USB-to-serial converter on Windows, Linux or OSX.

A way around it is to use correcting protocols like kermit for long
transfers, if your target supports such.

Alan

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Joseph King <joseph.king at joking.net> wrote:
> Which brand did you try? I use a Keyspan converter, and although I haven't
> tried it directly from my Ubuntu VM, it works great with OS X...
>
> In Your Service,
>
> Joseph King
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Steven
> A. DuChene
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:02 PM
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> Subject: recommend serial-to-usb adapter?
>
> I have a embedded ECU that I have to program and I have been doing it with
> an older laptop that still has a serial port. I would like to use one of my
> newer laptops but the last time I tried buying a serial-to-usb convertor at
> Frys Electronics I ended up with one that I just could not get to function
> in Linux. Can anyone recommend a brand or model to me and possibly a place
> that stocks such a thing? If it was local I would have better chance of
> returning it if it did not work.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Steven DuChene
>
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