From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HWwmh-0003hy-DY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:43:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2TFenDo027637; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:40:49 GMT Received: from mail.mindmedia.com.sg (cluster2.mindmedia.com.sg [210.193.7.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2TFejuB027501 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:40:47 GMT Received: (qmail 3432 invoked by uid 7797); 29 Mar 2007 15:40:39 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 3427, pid: 3429, t: 0.0457s scanners: clamav: 0.88.7/m:42/d:2959 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.11?) (anthony@mindmedia.com.sg@210.193.25.161) by cluster2.mindmedia.com.sg with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 15:40:39 -0000 Message-ID: <460BDDF4.9080108@singnet.com.sg> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:40:36 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070305) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB to Serial adapter setup References: <460BBE78.1030106@ercbroadband.org> In-Reply-To: <460BBE78.1030106@ercbroadband.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e076a7b4-6d42-4541-93c3-ea37bbeb305d X-Archives-Hash: f929c5a653149c3217ea6ecdfff096df Mark Haney wrote: > I've got a USB to Serial adapter I want to use in Gentoo to talk to my > Cisco devices via console, however, none of the docs I"ve found are very > current (most for the 2.4 kernel), can someone point me to a good set of > instructions on how to get this thing working? I've got the module > compiled and installed but can't get any farther. Which usb to serial adapter did you buy? I want to buy one to hook up a fax modem. I heard that there are problems with linux for these adaptors. I hope it is false. Good fax modems are still the ones with serial ports. P.V.Anthony -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list