looking for an inspiron 8500 or some other Dell of similar vintage

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 07:58:48PM -0400, Digimer wrote:
> If you just need reliable serial, I've gotten a couple of Antaira
> USB to serial adapters and they work in Linux flawlessly. This one:
> 
> http://www.antaira.com/products/industrial-usb/usb-to-serial/1-port/uts-1110a?pid=4509
> 
> Has Tx/Rx LEDs, which is surprisingly useful, too. I highly recommend them.

Which chipset does it use?

Anything with a pl2303 is to be avoided.  ftdi is generally the best.
There are a few other options too.

Oh the datasheet says ftdi.  OK, then it is clearly a good one.

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