[Gllug] 2.6.31 is out

[Geo]

On Monday 14 September 2009 23:55:18 Peter Corlett wrote:
> 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.)

Hi,
 do you have aURL for the design etc of one of these units by any chance?
 thanks

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