Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Andreas Berger wrote: I have two Prolific 2303 serial converters without problems. There is native USB support in the kernel (2.6.17). I have run them at 38400. I am interested in your problems - maybe I can prevent some future problem. Does anyone know about USB-to-Serial for DOS? I

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Marco van de Voort
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: EPROM blaster, but obviously that sort of thing wouldn't work where the physical device types differed. Actually, I use DOS directly. I use cheap off-the-shelf motherboard for an embedded system that our company uses. The motherboard talks the the system

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Andreas Berger wrote: My own feeling if you /have/ to have a DOS environment and don't mean something like the '98 DOS box would be to see if you could run the code under either DosEmu or Qemu, both of which allow guest session ports to be mapped to whatever hardware is supported by the

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-28 Thread Rainer Stratmann
Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2006 14:03 schrieb Andreas Berger: My problem is that there are cheap motherboards appearing that no longer have serial ports. I'm afraid that soon none will. Therefore I am looking for alternatives. I'm running also a DOS Program and now it is ported to Linux.

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-27 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am Dienstag, 26. Dezember 2006 18:57 schrieb Marco van de Voort: The best USB-serial Interfaces for Linux are the ones with FTDI Chip inside. http://www.ftdichip.com/ http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/USB-Serial.htm Do they have the same latency as a normal serial port?

[fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-26 Thread Rainer Stratmann
The best USB-serial Interfaces for Linux are the ones with FTDI Chip inside. http://www.ftdichip.com/ http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/USB-Serial.htm Rainer ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-26 Thread Marco van de Voort
The best USB-serial Interfaces for Linux are the ones with FTDI Chip inside. http://www.ftdichip.com/ http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/USB-Serial.htm Do they have the same latency as a normal serial port? I've tried several usb-serial ports, and they all have horrible latencies

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-26 Thread Rainer Stratmann
Am Dienstag, 26. Dezember 2006 18:57 schrieb Marco van de Voort: The best USB-serial Interfaces for Linux are the ones with FTDI Chip inside. http://www.ftdichip.com/ http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/USB-Serial.htm Do they have the same latency as a normal serial port? I've

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-26 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:23:56 +0100 Rainer Stratmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We tried USB converters with prolific chipset and it hangs up then, so FTDI chips would be better. I read also somewhere a lack of latency. May be it is also a question of the Kerneldriver and the driver will improve

Re: [fpc-pascal] USB serial interface

2006-12-26 Thread Andreas Berger
We tried USB converters with prolific chipset and it hangs up then, so FTDI chips would be better. I read also somewhere a lack of latency. May be it is also a question of the Kerneldriver and the driver will improve more in the future. I have two Prolific 2303 serial converters without