Subject: Re: USB-to-serial converters? (was: Re: USB printer cable
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/03/2001 14:44:38
I've got a BAFO BF810 at home I can test using NetBSD-1.4.2 for port-i386.
It doesn't work under Windows98SE; maybe it will work under NetBSD....

At 08:24 PM 1/3/01 +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>Jonathan Stone wrote:
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>> In message <3A53746E.7288CB59@augustsson.net>Lennart Augustsson writes
>> >Johan Ihren wrote:
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>> >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).
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>> 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?
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>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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