COM to USB devices

[Kevin Buettner]

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.)

Kevin