At 20:28 25/11/2008, you wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 25 at 05:20, Clive Woodfine wrote:
> > I am looking for a means of connecting my Psion Revo to my laptop
> > which has no serial port. Is there anything I should look for under
> > Linux?
>
>FTDI[1] sell a wide variety of USB to serial cables with all manner
>of connectors and voltages, 3.3V, 5V(ttl) and RS232, bare leaded,
>3.5mm jacks, 9pinD or bare PCBs to attach your own wires to.
>
>All work out the box with linux in my experience. Nice to have a
>device where the Windows guys are the ones that have to install
>the driver :-) It's a free download :-(
>
>They are described as engineering samples but they happily sell
>one offs to joe public. Just expect a cable in a jiffy bag not a
>four colour box.
>
>[1] www.ftdi.com Sorry the eshop don't publish useful internal
> UrLs but it should be obvious.
Hmm i get a flower shop at that website.
I did type usb to serial in the search box to be sure and it returned
nothing.
Trying to connect my belkin ups to new motherboard thats serial
connection-less. The usb port is dodgy on my ups hence using
serial.
Martin N
