On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my > switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the > driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications > program (equivalent to hyperterm ) to use with them to talk to my > switches and to my UPS
There are many drivers in the kernel. They've got a category among other USB devices. I'm not sure, but it may be that you have to enable serial support. You can read more under Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt. For the terminal, I recommend net-dialup/minicom.
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