Subject: Re: USB-to-serial converters? (was: Re: USB printer cable recommendations)
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/03/2001 11:24:16
In message <3A53746E.7288CB59@augustsson.net>Lennart Augustsson writes
>Johan Ihren wrote:
>There the situation is much worse. There's no standard for
>USB-to-serial (Microsoft vetoed it). NetBSD currently only supports
>dongles with the FTDI chip. But if you can get the specs for the
>chip in a dongle writing a driver is not that hard (it's getting the
>specs that is hard; some chip vendors refuse to give the out).
Is there a list of known-working vendor/product names/numbers,
that'd help a hopeful buyer increase their chance of getting a
product which does work with netbsd?
(Some vendors frequently change the chips without changing model
numbers, so it wouldn't be perfect, but it'd be *something*...)