On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:57:36 -0700 Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Therefore I bought a couple of Trendnet USB to Serial Converters According to the comments at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Serial-Converter-TU-S9-White/dp/B0007T27H8 It uses the Prolific PL-2303 chipset which is very compatible with Linux. Under the Linux kernel configuration USB serial converter support, select the USB Prolific 2303 single port serial driver and do not select the USB generic serial driver. See the kernel documentation: Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt for what the different drivers apply to. On my system, I select the PL-2303 driver to be built-in rather than as a module. I want also to mention that, although I don't expect there to be any problems with regard to Trendnet, I have been bitten by crappy PL-2303 clones from Ebay. In some cases, the cheap knock offs will only work when plugged directly into the USB card (and I have a good NEC chipset USB PCI card), they won't work reliably with even a short, quality 2.0 USB extension cable, while a real/name brand PL-2303 does just fine. In any case, I have found it worthwhile to thoroughly test these things before relying on them. Intermittent data corruption can be most irksome. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
