On 12/30/2005 6:31 AM Brian Wallen said the following:
Yesterday I just got directv in my house. I have a couple of d11 receivers with usb ports in the back. The usb port is the regular rectangular type like the ones in the back of a computer. Is it possible to have a cable that has two rectangular ends and use that to control the receiver? I saw one guy say he got it working with a usb->serial converter, but I wanted to see if that was my only choice or not.
Not knowing anything about D11 or the function of its USB ports, I can tell you that it is possible to buy a piece of hardware that will turn a USB port into an old fashioned 9 pin serial port. The particular one I have is a Keyspan and I use it at work with a laptop that runs Windows. You might look into it and see if there's drivers for Linux.
HTH, Drew _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
