[ale] USB-to-Serial Cable

Kent Pirkle kpirkle at kphome.net
Tue Oct 21 05:41:06 EDT 2003


Here is the website for the drivers:

http://www.keyspan.com/support/linux/


On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 05:37, Kent Pirkle wrote:
> The driver is available at the Keyspan website and is integrated into
> the 2.5/2.6 kernel. I know RedHat's kernel has the driver backported to
> their kernel, I'm not sure if other distros have it included. It's
> called keyspan.o.
> 
> As far as controlling the baud rate, I used it with minicom, it shows up
> as /dev/ttyUSB0 and all the settings can be set in minicom.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 00:21, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:08:19PM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote:
> > > I'll second the keyspan. I have the USA-19QW and it works well with Red
> > > Hat 9. I've used it to connect to an external modem, as a Sun console,
> > > and as a Linux serial console.
> > What sort of driver, device name, and method of controlling baud rate
> > is there?  I'd like to be able to speak serial with my Thinkpad Laptop.
> > (I actually had a need earlier this year and had to drag out my AT&T
> > CRT built in 1986 that still worked!)
> > 
> > Bob Toxen
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