> -----Original Message----- > From: Jure Varlec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:20 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop > > 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.
[Timothy A. Holmes] Ok - sounds good - -I will dig into them a bit more Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
