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Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Karl Denninger wrote:
>> I wasn't aware that the USB to Serial
>> converters would work - I can try them, but there are a lot of those out
>> there that don't work right even under Windows - expecting them to under
>> FreeBSD might be asking too much.

I've had good luck with the Dynex USB-to-serial converter (uplcom-based) 
I got at my local Best Buy.  It works well with FreeBSD and Linux both; 
I've used it with Cisco routers and several xscale-based Linux devices.

Marty