Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support
to work in Linux? I'm considering employing this relay[1] to perform a
nightly reboot of my pile-of-junk Comcast cable modem.
--Dave
[1] http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4757843
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Dave Smith wrote:
Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support
to work in Linux? I'm considering employing this relay[1] to perform a
nightly reboot of my pile-of-junk Comcast cable modem.
Assuming the serial controller on that board is supported by Linux, when
you
Shane Hathaway wrote:
Dave Smith wrote:
Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support
to work in Linux? I'm considering employing this relay[1] to perform a
nightly reboot of my pile-of-junk Comcast cable modem.
Assuming the serial controller on that board is
Dave Smith wrote:
That may indeed be a better option, but the hacker in me wants any
excuse to setup a relay and a cron job. :)
Amen.
Shane
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:04:18AM -0700, Dave Smith wrote:
Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support
to work in Linux? I'm considering employing this relay[1] to perform a
nightly reboot of my pile-of-junk Comcast cable modem.
It looks like it uses the FTDI chip
On 22 Feb 2010, at 18:13, Dan Hanks wrote:
Looks like UTOPIA has made its interest in Google's offer known:
http://www.freeutopia.org/2010/02/17/utopia-announces-that-they-will-pursue-google-fiber-rfi/
Woot!
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Shane Hathaway wrote:
Assuming the serial controller on that board is supported by Linux, when
you plug in the device to a computer running a recent distribution,
you'll get a device called /dev/ttyUSB0, which you can use like an
ordinary serial port.
So I could use minicom to control it?
Byron Clark wrote:
It looks like it uses the FTDI chip so it should work fine with any
2.6.x kernel.
Byron, that's why you make the big bucks. Yeah baby! I just ordered one
-- can't wait to start playing with it.
--Dave
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On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 09:04 -0700, Dave Smith wrote:
Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support
to work in Linux?
I don't know if this works the same way as what you're looking at, but
I've got one of these and it works perfectly right out of the box:
Looks like UTOPIA has made its interest in Google's offer known:
http://www.freeutopia.org/2010/02/17/utopia-announces-that-they-will-pursue-google-fiber-rfi/
I've tried a few times and haven't been able to get to that site
(server timing out) while downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports it as
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Daniel C. dcrooks...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like UTOPIA has made its interest in Google's offer known:
http://www.freeutopia.org/2010/02/17/utopia-announces-that-they-will-pursue-google-fiber-rfi/
I've tried a few times and haven't been able to get to that
Mr Ritter wrote:
I couldn't get to it from home on Comcast, but my work loads it just
fine.
Yeah, comcast is doing something fishy with it. I can reach it when I
route around the damage via my VPS.
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Michael Torrie wrote:
Mr Ritter wrote:
I couldn't get to it from home on Comcast, but my work loads it just
fine.
Yeah, comcast is doing something fishy with it. I can reach it when I
route around the damage via my VPS.
Something fishy is going on, but I wouldn't be quite so quick to
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote:
Mr Ritter wrote:
I couldn't get to it from home on Comcast, but my work loads it just
fine.
Yeah, comcast is doing something fishy with it. I can reach it when I
route around the damage via my VPS.
Well actually I
Conspiracy theory at bottom.
On Tue 23 February 2010 18:37:08 Joe C v2jo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote:
Mr Ritter wrote:
I couldn't get to it from home on Comcast, but my work loads it
just fine.
Yeah, comcast is doing
Corey Edwards wrote:
Something fishy is going on, but I wouldn't be quite so quick to place
blame. I'm getting the same error from my cable at home. A traceroute
bails out after getting to their network provider (Datotel).
Interesting. I can ping www.freeutopia.org, but I cannot make an http
On 2/23/2010 7:12 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
Corey Edwards wrote:
Something fishy is going on, but I wouldn't be quite so quick to place
blame. I'm getting the same error from my cable at home. A traceroute
bails out after getting to their network provider (Datotel).
Interesting. I can
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 19:49 -0700, gregorcy wrote:
I am in SLC though.
Burn him! Burn the witch!
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Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote:
Corey Edwards wrote:
Something fishy is going on, but I wouldn't be quite so quick to
place blame. I'm getting the same error from my cable at home. A
traceroute bails out after getting to their network provider
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