[Wolves] USB to serial cable

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 4 00:21:46 BST 2007


Andy Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:07:54PM +0100, Adam Sweet wrote:
>   
>> 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've bought several different ones from maplins (for different
> laptops and people) and they all just worked as soon as I plugged
> them in, with ubuntu breezy and beyond.
>
> I'm afraid I don't have any makes or model numbers to hand though,
> sorry.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>   
and I can confirm they had them in Walsall Maplins today because I 
looked at one and thought "I wonder if they work with Linux?"

Woo



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