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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tony Sumner wrote: >> I have a little gadget (for controlling the water heating) that plugs >> in to a serial port but modern laptops don't have these. I bought a >> USB-serial converter and this comes with drivers for Red Hat 7, 8 and >> 9. By a strange twist of fate I still have the discs containing Red >> Hat 8 (those were the days) so I installed the it and the driver works >> (this laptop is dedicated to the one task). There must be other ways >> of solving this problem and I'd be interested to know what they >> are. Maplin sell a card-bus device with serial ports but they say this >> is windows only. Does anyone have experience with the Keyspan device? >> >> Tony Sumner > I bought a USB-RS232C adapter (from Trago a few years ago) so I could > connect my serial-less laptop to Cisco equipment for > configuring/troubleshooting. I found that it "just works" under every > flavour of Linux I threw at it - no need for any "specific" drivers. > > > Have you tried using it on anything other than RH 8? > its possible if the udev rules are old or the kernel is a little old it will not autodetect, Most USB/serial are the same chipset (A Prolific one) and the usbserial driver will work but you may need to modprobe usbserial VENDOR=0x0000 DEVICE=0x0000 where there 0x000 are the appropriate numbers discovered by lsusb. Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html