Re: USB to RS232
For anyone who might have a Nokia DKU-5 USB-Phone cable. Mine is a Chinese copy, however is recognised as a Prolific PL2303 USB-Serial adaptor and might be able to be hacked into use as a USB-RS232 cable. I only paid about $20 Aussie and would like to put some 9-pin connectors towards the phone end of the cable to allow dual use. Bear in mind that I don't know if a genuine Nokia DKU-5 cable also works in this fashion, because this cheapo DKU-5 is not a drop-in replacement for the genuine Nokia and requires its own driver in XP distinct from the Nokia driver. In other words, the real DKU-5 might not be recognised as a serial adaptor in any BSD. On 07/10/2005, at 10:23 PM, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: Mine cost $AUD30 inc GST and I got change. Go figure. Shane J Pearson
USB to RS232
Hi, I'll soon buy a soekris, but just realized i have no serial port on my laptop (duh!), has someone already tried to use a usb serial adapter? Most of the time this works as a traditional com port on windows, but what about openbsd, will it be ok for a serial console? -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code 418 I'm a teapot. The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- HTCPCP Spec, RFC 2324
Re: USB to RS232
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Eric Dillenseger wrote: I'll soon buy a soekris, but just realized i have no serial port on my laptop (duh!), has someone already tried to use a usb serial adapter? Check out ubsa(4) that has a list. Dw
Re: USB to RS232
Eric Dillenseger a icrit : Hi, I'll soon buy a soekris, but just realized i have no serial port on my laptop (duh!), has someone already tried to use a usb serial adapter? Most of the time this works as a traditional com port on windows, but what about openbsd, will it be ok for a serial console? Trendnet TU-S9, cheap adapter tested on OpenBSD 3.7 - i386, and perhaps on SPARC64 (i dont' remember for the latest). It uses a classic pl2303. Please note that previous release of OpenBSD does detect the adapter but are not able to issue any communication : new chip... latest release... ;-)
Re: USB to RS232
El Viernes, 7 de Octubre de 2005 12:07, escribis: Hi, I'll soon buy a soekris, but just realized i have no serial port on my laptop (duh!), has someone already tried to use a usb serial adapter? Most of the time this works as a traditional com port on windows, but what about openbsd, will it be ok for a serial console? Yes I do. It runs ok! I've tried a laptop running Windows XP + usb-serial + serial-serial + firewall running openbsd and it works -- Abel Talaversn Estevez Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicaciones Analista de Proyectos OpenWired Caballero 87 - Bajos 08029 - Barcelona Tel. 93 495 0990 Fax. 93 419 4591 Openwired Alejandro Villegas,29 28043 - MADRID - ESPAQA Telifono: 91 300 51 09 Fax: 91 300 28 13 http://www.openwired.com
Re: USB to RS232
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:07:29 +0200, Eric Dillenseger wrote: Hi, I'll soon buy a soekris, but just realized i have no serial port on my laptop (duh!), has someone already tried to use a usb serial adapter? Most of the time this works as a traditional com port on windows, but what about openbsd, will it be ok for a serial console? It is either supported or it is not. If it is supported it works et v v. I bought one 2 days ago. No name. Windows XP needed a CD with a driver. My r50e laptop dual boots to OpenBSD where I found it as a uplcom and it has been supported for 3 years. My suggestion: buy it - try it - it probably works. If not send it to a developer (ask about which one first) and next time it probably will work. Mine cost $AUD30 inc GST and I got change. Go figure. -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code 418 I'm a teapot. The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- HTCPCP Spec, RFC 2324 From the land down under: Australia. Do we look umop apisdn from up over? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.
Re: USB to RS232
For the same purpose I'm using a Belkin serial converter F5U103, It's quite expsensive but work great.. Bye MAtteo Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Eric Dillenseger wrote: I'll soon buy a soekris, but just realized i have no serial port on my laptop (duh!), has someone already tried to use a usb serial adapter? Check out ubsa(4) that has a list. Dw
