On Wed 16 Jan 2013 11:59:30 NZDT +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:

Go FTDI, more expensive but always works.

Prolific is cheap as chips, however it's not always reliable and
sometimes needs to be replugged.

> http://hackaday.com/2013/01/14/usb-to-serial-adapter-tells-you-what-com-port-youre-on/

We who cares about com numbers, and on Linux you use some udev rules to
automatically create a fixed-named symlink pointing to whatever ttyUSB
the thing gets. Let me know if you need help.

Volker

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