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David Kramer wrote: > Don Levey wrote: > >> I hope you don't mind if I bring it back a little. I wasn't aware >> that these adapters had so many problems; would you anticipate that >> I'd see these difficulties in my application? Do you have an >> alternate suggestion for connecting my laptop as a console? Sadly, >> the old VTs are long gone from my house. >> >> -Don > > Most of these adapters use the Prolific chipset, which is pretty well > supported under Linux, but I've certainly had times when it doesn't > work, then I reboot and it works. > > One major problem with these devices, though, is that they can only > simulate the data pins, but not the hardware handshaking pins. If you > need those, you're generally SOL. For instance, because my new server > doesn't have real serial ports, I can no longer use my X10 Firecracker > to control X10 modules throughout my house, because it depends on DTR > "bit twiddling" (rapidly bringing that pin high then low to use this > gate line as another data line). I'm actually pretty upset about it. I > bought a serial card, but the system wouldn't boot when I put it in. >
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