From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 10:46:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E532C1065686 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE988FC18 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) Received: from ap-h.matik.com.br (ap-h.matik.com.br [200.152.83.36]) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6VAk5Jj017612 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:46:05 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) From: AT Matik Organization: Infomatik To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:45:43 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <3A7C430E-AA1C-4CF3-88F5-F7A0EBE3273A@bnc.net> <20080731100821.GA15213@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080731100821.GA15213@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807310745.43407.asstec@matik.com.br> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/7898/Thu Jul 31 03:42:41 2008 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:46:07 -0000 On Thursday 31 July 2008 07:08:21 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote: > > Drivers? Who cares. Serial port? Just plug in an USB-to-serial. > > You've obviously never used a USB-to-serial adapter. Are you aware of > the fact that there is no serial device class as part of the USB > specification? (Quite a great irony, if you ask me. Universal SERIAL > Bus, yet no serial device class...) AFAIK, there isn't even a draft > proposal for such. > > You *must* have drivers for a USB-to-serial adapter. And every adapter > is different, depending upon the adapter chipset used, many of which are > not disclosed in product specifications, so there's no way to guarantee > it'll work with FreeBSD. On -stable (I believe) some people have > mentioned which USB-to-serial adapters work great under FreeBSD and > Windows, while others are horrible (dropping characters, broken flow > control, interrupt issues, and many other problems). > I am not sure if that is true ... I believe that are port config issues I have Leadership USB to serial adaptor cable which works just fine with=20 freebsd's usb drivers out-of-the-box since 5.3 or 6 for sure, works flawles= s=20 with minicom Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br