[Wolves] USB to serial cable

[Adam Sweet]

--- Broadfield Robert <BroadfieldR at walsall.gov.uk>
wrote:

> One possible solution is to borrow a laptop with a
> serial port.
> 
> I'm happy to lend you mine but you will need to keep
> it fed with a mains supply (Ron mentioned that we
> couldn't trust the batteries).

Cool, thanks for the offer Rob. I already have a
laptop which has a serial port, but it is a bit crap
and the idea was to carry a cable being as they exist,
rather than 2 laptops.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of Adam Sweet
> Sent: 03 July 2007 13:08
> To: Wolves LUG
> Subject: [Wolves] USB to serial cable
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> This has been doing my nut in for a few weeks so I
> thought I'd turn it over to you.
> 
> Can anyone recommend an affordable USB to serial
> cable, which is supported by the Linux USB Serial
> drivers so I can configure Cisco routers and other
> serial consoles from a Linux laptop which has only
> USB
> ports.
> 
> I bought one and discovered that it wasn't supported
> even though it appeared to be. I've searched around
> and they seem to be from either the USA or something
> like £28 which seems stupid to me and I still can't
> be
> sure they're supported. Special prize (ie nothing
> more
> than temporary gratitude ;) goes to someone who can
> tell me where to get it from.
> 
> And the moon on a stick.
> 
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