Personally I've had great experience under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with the Keyspan adapters (now owned by Tripplite). Like this one http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=3914
-Shawn On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Bill Sconce <sco...@in-spec-inc.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 23:28:05 -0400 > "James A. Kuzdrall" <gnh...@intrel.com> wrote: > > > I have had several USB to RS232 to serial modem setups within the > last 5 > > years, and none of them worked very well. (We have 3 computers on > dialup.) > > I also used a number of PCMCIA cards. They run hot, and I now have 3 of > them > > that are dead or partially working. > > As one of those coincidences, I'm currently working with a piece of lab > gear > (a vector network analyzer) which communicates with its controlling PC via > ...serial. > > Which works fine. RS-232, nine-pin plugs, even runs under KVM. > > When I bought it the manufacturer offered that "it *can* be made to work > with > USB-to-serial adapters, some of our customers have done it". Their wiki > filled > in what they didn't say -- that not a few of their customers couldn't get > certain > adapters to work, the drivers crashed, one chipset would not work and > another > chipset would work, etc. > > My .02 would be that "real" serial is the way to go if you can. > (Fortunately all > of my PCs are of such a vintage that they *have* serial ports [they > mostly have > floppy drives, too...] :) > > -Bill > > _______ > Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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