COM to USB devices

At 02:48 PM 3/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mar 23, 2:30pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
>
> > I have a "whatever" brand PC USB to COM port adapter for my Palm. Bought
> > it at a cable place before you could get them at "Worst Buy" type places.
> > Works like it did the first day, perfectly. It created a COM3 for the OS
> > and I told the HotSync conduit to use COM3. Slick as can be and no
> problems.
>
>Have you tried it with Linux? (When you say "COM3", that makes me think
>you're using it with some other OS instead. If you'd said /dev/ttyS2 or
>somesuch, I wouldn't have asked.)

You are correct! Give the man a T-shirt! The description of my use is
based on my Win98 experience. The question was about a Win98 installation,
after all.

I have not tried it on Linux and I have not investigated it on Linux. I
figure the way out of my Linux newbie status is to study more fundamental
things like routing. Granted, I could learn some things making a COM to
USB device work under Linux but I still am making sure I understand my
firewall first.

Alan