Hi All
We recently upgraded a customers old PC based server from a tower to a
rack mounted box and discovered afterwards (isn't it always the way)
that they were running Hylafax on the old machine with two RS232 modems.
Naturally the rack box only had one serial port. We were then in the
situation of either buying (and re-testing) USB modems or finding an
alternative solution.
The good news is that I have found a USB to RS232C convertor that works
"out of the box" (with FC6 at least). They are marketed by a company
called "Wiretek" and cost less than AUS$30 each. No software needed -
just plug them in and away you go - like this:
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: wakeup
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device
using ohci_hcd and address 2
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from
1 choice
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial support registered for generic
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
usbserial_generic
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial Driver core
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial support registered for pl2303
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: pl2303 1-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: usb 1-1: pl2303 converter now
attached to ttyUSB0
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver pl2303
Feb 18 10:11:11 sydsrv56 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c: Prolific
PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
Feb 18 10:13:06 sydsrv56 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device
using ohci_hcd and address 3
Feb 18 10:13:06 sydsrv56 kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from
1 choice
Feb 18 10:13:06 sydsrv56 kernel: pl2303 1-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
Feb 18 10:13:06 sydsrv56 kernel: usb 1-2: pl2303 converter now
attached to ttyUSB1
Though this might be useful to anyone else facing a similar problem.
Rgds
Nigel.
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