[Gllug] 2.6.31 is out

[Peter Corlett]

On 14 Sep 2009, at 14:40, Nix wrote:
[...]
> I'm not sure that would help: the job is normally done by specialized
> drivers for each USB->serial converter, and I'm not sure it would be
> easier to make userspace drivers than kernel ones.

Sure it is. I'd just bodge something together in Perl as a prototype,  
safe in the knowledge that I shouldn't be able to crash or corrupt the  
kernel.

> (As an aside, I'm
> still trying to get my Soekris console serial port to work, because it
> has to work over a serial->ethernet, ethernet->serial, and serial->USB
> converter. Data goes in one end and doesn't come out the other, and  
> I'm
> not really sure how to figure out where it's going...)

My RS232 inline monitor has been *very* handy in the past for  
debugging that kind of setup. Usually the problem with no data flowing  
is a cable (or port!) that's not wired up as expected.

Commercial units are probably as rare as hen's teeth now, but they're  
also really simple and suitable for a first electronics project.  
(Especially as there's about a fiver's worth of parts in it, tops, and  
they seem to sell for ten times that.)


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