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From: Douglas A. Tutty on 4 May 2008 21:10 On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:18:51PM +0100, Joe wrote: > So there's no way at all to predict whether a particular piece of > equipment, or particular software, will work with any or all USB-serial > ports. Probably it will, but the only way to be sure is to try it. USB/serial adapters are a convenience thing, especially for laptops. If you have a desktop with a spare PCI slot, just buy a PCI serial card. You'll probably get 4 serial ports or perhaps two serial and a paralell. I doubt if it would cost more, and probably less, than the USB adapter. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Douglas A. Tutty on 4 May 2008 21:10
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:30:10PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:20:23PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Celejar wrote: Serious typo: > I used-to-would-have said that any computer store should have a 9-pin > serial gender-changer but that may not be true anymore. If your local > store doesn't have one, you have a couple of options: > > 1. See if there is one on ebay and get it with the adapter. > > 2. Order one from your computer store: they are still made: > Belkin or Startech should have them. > > 3. If you know someone who can get a male and a female and a shell, > they can solder one together for your. That should be two females. A male and a female with a stright-through is called an extension cord. :) You need two females to accept the male braille and the male computer. > There are no electronics in a gender-changer so you don't need to worry > about compatibility. For details, you can checkout the serial-HOWTO (in > the doc-linux-[html] package, or on the ldp website. > > Good luck. > > Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |