[SLUG] USB to Serial Converter that supports break

2006-11-22 Thread Greg Cockburn
Hi Sluggers, After upgrading my laptop, I now don't have a serial port. I need this to talk to the odd Sun machine when it breaks, and therefore I need the converter to support the break command. I purchased a U232-P9(2.40) from GPSOZ, which uses the mct_u232 driver, but as I found out this

Re: [SLUG] USB to Serial Converter that supports break

2006-11-22 Thread Peter Hardy
Greg Cockburn wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on a good converter that supports break, is readily available, light, and easy to carry. The Aten UC-232A[1] works out of the box and is fairly compact. From memory, I've used it to send breaks without futzing with it. But I don't

Re: [SLUG] USB to Serial Converter that supports break

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:27:43PM +1100, Greg Cockburn wrote: Hi Sluggers, After upgrading my laptop, I now don't have a serial port. I need this to talk to the odd Sun machine when it breaks, and therefore I need the converter to support the break command. You can get Suns to accept