Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:44:27 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Good USB Serial Adapters Message-ID: <20041114114427.GB21962@alzatex.com>
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I'm looking for good USB Serial adapters for FreeBSD. Currently all the work has been done on a couple of Linux boxes, but I'd like to be able to use my own desktop for some of the work. Looking at the Hardware Guide, it looks like FreeBSD supports a lot less drivers than Linux currently does, specifically it doesn't support keyspan adapters. Most of our current usb serial adapters are keyspan, but we do have two adapters that use the pl2303 driver. In my experience, the adapters using the pl2303 driver in linux had a lot more problems not working and sometimes required rebooting linux. One of them is an IO Gear adapter and I'm not sure what the other brand is, but both had problems with the same driver. Now the keyspan ones that I'd really like to use have worked perfectly since we started using them in linux. My question is what devices should I buy that will work the best and is there any way to use the keyspan adapters so we don't need to purchase any more? --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C =20
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