usb-serial convertors

silverwolf · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 12:53 pm Post subject: usb-serial convertors

Greetings,

Has anyone managed to get a usb to serial convertor running? Need to be able to talk to LOM ports and stuff, but laptop only has usb. What do I need to do?

Apologies if faqs already exist .. just point me in the right direction.
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ronmon · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:30 pm Post subject:

You can get lots of good info at the Linux USB site. It looks like there are plenty of supported devices.

The only USB to Serial converter that I have used is the cable that came with my CyberPower UPS. I only tried it for fun, and ended up using the normal serial cable, but it worked with little or no effort other than setting up minicom to talk to it.