[gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread James
Adam Carter Adam.Carter at optus.com.au writes:


 Is /dev/ttyUSB0 as 
 functional as a regular /etc/ttyS0? I have a USB to serial adapter 
 that uses the pl2303 driver, and have 

It's listed in the kernel sources so it should work..

make menuconfig
--device drivers
--usb
--USB Serial Converter Support
-- Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver


 - will other USB to 
 serial adapter with better linux drivers work?
 - or will i have to 
 try a PCCard serial adapter?


FTDI work very well under windows or linux. Once you add the
appropriate driver (via the linux kernel) you can boot
either winblows or linux and use the 9pin-serial-to-usb
as you like with either OS.


These sorts of products are build upon various chipsets from
different vendors, but, there are standards so as long as 
a linux driver exists for the chipset that is used in your
product, it should work reliably and consistently, under
linux or winblows.


hth,


James









RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter

 FTDI work very well under windows or linux. Once you add the
 appropriate driver (via the linux kernel) you can boot
 either winblows or linux and use the 9pin-serial-to-usb
 as you like with either OS.

The device is setup and works (hence the existance of the /dev/ttyUSB0 device). 
If the driver wasn't setup that device wouldn't be created. It works fine with 
minicom. Its just not responding in wine or vwmare (when mapped to a windows 
com port).



[gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread James
Adam Carter Adam.Carter at optus.com.au writes:


  It works fine with minicom. Its just not responding in wine or vwmare
 (when mapped to a windows com port).


OK, good.


Sorry, I never tried to use with wine or vmware



James







RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Wine + USB to serial adapter

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
Also;

absydos adam # setserial /dev/ttyUSB0
Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument

And

absydos adam # stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0
speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel
absydos adam #