Looking for dialup hardware solution

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 14 20:30:35 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:59:03PM -0400, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> You could always get a USB to Serial adapter. Last I checked these and 
> their printer counter parts are reasonably well supported in Linux.

Parallel is simple.  The serial ones are tricky and involve firmware in
some cases.  It really comes down to which chip is inside.

PL2032 I think is the name of a common chip which does work with linux,
but isn't great in terms of latency.

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Len Sorensen
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