Charles Lockhart wrote:
Probably a big duh, but I need a serial port on my laptop to talk over
minicom to an embedded device for debug. The duh part is I go in to
hook it up and realize that my laptop doesn't have a serial port. So I
need to go get something that'll work for this, but I need it to be
linux compatible. Any recommendations, beyond getting a new brain while
I'm at it?
-Charles
There's plenty of PCMCIA serial adapters. There's also tons of USB serial
adapters, many of which work in linux. There's a big USB Linux compatibility
site (google for it, it'll be the first hit) that will list compatibility. You
can usually find devices that are literally plug-n-play. Just plug it in and
linux says you have another serial port (usually numbered above 3 tho).
--MonMotha
