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 1HWwzT-0005IJ-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:56:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2TFsZXV000834; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:54:35 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2TFsYep000829 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:54:34 GMT Received: from [192.168.20.50] (dsl081-053-210.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.53.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D91C64BE8 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <460BE138.3020108@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:54:32 -0700 From: Mike Doty User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070324) 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> <460BDDF4.9080108@singnet.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <460BDDF4.9080108@singnet.com.sg> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f6a971e6-fca7-4d9c-af0f-aa67cd45a073 X-Archives-Hash: 95d7a30ded484564c491f892c6cb42da -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 P.V.Anthony wrote: > 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 I use a FTDI based one. There is a driver in the kernel. Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd 8-bit FIFO Can be bought at many places, I got mine at http://www.knjn.com/ShopCablesUSB.html - -- ======================================================= Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org Gentoo Council Gentoo Infrastructure Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead GPG: E1A5 1C9C 93FE F430 C1D6 F2AF 806B A2E4 19F4 AE05 ======================================================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRgvhN4BrouQZ9K4FAQIQqgP/ZQN+DyRMkuHgG48T0M8ZSlgIyH26GEQB DsMvkbsJJc/5gliqOWdOQAF4BMrUUyaSN+4wSYdVGK277fLUZpmF4pPiQolm4ihg PWrnZB85KdecXmnHO6qrDTbovLA/YD3tEw5yJcXuC8f7xZZOImICXmu6SalhIC0f X26v78xkTMk= =77Ch -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list