Subject: Re: USB-to-serial converters? (was: Re: USB printer cable
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/03/2001 20:24:14
Jonathan Stone wrote:

> 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?

Well, the only one I have is an adapter from Inland.  It doesn't seem
to have a model number or name.  It's listed on the uftdi(4) man page.

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        -- Lennart