On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:55:45PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 21:42 +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Me too. I do a lot of microcontroller development and most of the tools use the serial port for device programmimg - I currently use a USB/serial adaptor on my laptop.
Those things drive me mad. They never seem completely reliable and I know my Picstart programmer simply refused to work on one last time I tried it.
I guess I have been lucky. I bought a cheap one from ebuyer and it has worked flawlessly.
What part number / Linux driver does it use? I've tried a few different devices and while they mostly work ok for serial with no flow control once you add flow control into the mix all bets are off. Particularly annoying if you want to use one to hook up an external modem (how's that for getting back to the original topic!).
J.