Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-27 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Thu, Nov 27 at 10:11, Chris Aitken wrote: What are you trying to do with all these serial ports? Well a seismometer/digitiser will typically have 2-3 serial ports, one or more of these instruments will then couple into an embedded aquisition module (basically a linux based data logger

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Aitken
Okay I have a puzzle for you. Plug 56 of them into one machine (the extreme case I know, but we regularly do 24+) how do you easily assign each port to a known entry in /dev ? At present each time we put a machine together we have to trawl through getting each ports serial number and

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25 at 10:48, Vic wrote: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... Okay I have a puzzle for you. Plug 56

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... Serial 2 USB is something I've always shyed away from. Windows or Linux

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Damian Brasher
Vic wrote: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... successful use of these adapters. Serial 2 USB is something I've always

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Stephen Pelc
Quoth Vic: My experience of USB to serial on Linux has been really boring. You plug the thing in, and you get a serial port. Not like Windows users, with all that messing around with driver installation, the lucky gits... For most of them, the INF file is all you need. The INF file

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-26 Thread Clive Woodfine
2008/11/25 Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clive Woodfine wrote: I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under Linux? Hi Clive, As others have said, they all seem to work 'out of the box'. I can

[Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-25 Thread Clive Woodfine
I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under Linux? -- Clive Woodfine -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL:

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Clive, On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:20:36PM +, Clive Woodfine wrote: I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under Linux? I have bought several no-name USB to serial adaptors and they all worked under

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-25 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:20, Clive Woodfine wrote: I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under Linux? FTDI[1] sell a wide variety of USB to serial cables with all manner of connectors and voltages, 3.3V,

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-25 Thread trotter
At 20:28 25/11/2008, you wrote: On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:20, Clive Woodfine wrote: I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under Linux? FTDI[1] sell a wide variety of USB to serial cables with all manner of

Re: [Hampshire] Serial to USB dongle

2008-11-25 Thread Andy Random
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, trotter wrote: Hmm i get a flower shop at that website. I did type usb to serial in the search box to be sure and it returned nothing. So do I, but a web search for FTDI also finds me http://www.ftdichip.com/ Welcome to FTDI - specialists in converting legacy