On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:42:02PM -0500, Eloy Paris wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On 01/04/2012 04:34 PM, Eric Vickery wrote:
> 
> > This is not exactly directly related to OWFS but this is the best Linux 
> > list I am on.
> >
> > I am thinking about designing a new device 1-Wire Hub that has either a USB 
> > or Ethernet interface
> > and I am wondering if Linux has built-in drivers for Serial<->USB and/or 
> > Serial<->Ethernet. That way
> > I could emulate a DS9097U and have existing software (including OWFS) be 
> > compatible out of the box.
> 
> Linux has out-of-the-box support for a bunch of serial-to-USB converter 
> chips. The FTDI FT232RL is very common, but there are others that Linux 
> supports.

Please do not use a pl2303 based converter, all the ones I've used lack
serial numbers, so they show up in a random order when you have more
than one, which sucks bigtime.

See details:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linuxha/2010-06.html#Dealing-with-many-USB-to-Serial-Port-Converters-on-linux-and-device-naming

If you can't use ATTRS{serial}=="A7006gvN" please don't use the serial
to usb chip :)

Marc
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