> Well, if your devices are quite "accepting" and use standard "serial" > lines, anything should do. > But some special uses (for example microcontroller programmers) might > take a LONG time (in my case, more than 3 minutes to program a PIC) to > do the same thing a real serial port did in a really shorter time (about > 15 seconds to program the same PIC...). > > I decided to buy a PCMCIA to serial card (found in a fair a 2-port for 5 > EUR, had just to fix a broken wire). If you need many, maybe IC Intracom > is for you... but what they sell is QUITE expensive! >
Thank you all for your answers. @Diego: In the past we've used pcmcia cards, but the laptops we just bought have expresscard slots @David and Alan: At least now I know what to look for for minimizing troubles. jorges - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
