[c-nsp] Laptop USB-to-serial adapters - Break sequence?

[Michael Shields]

On 4 Nov 2005, at 05:17, Jay Hennigan wrote:

> Who has gone down this road before?  Any recommendations or warnings?
> Ideally something that is compatible with BSD or Linux and minicom,
> although I'm actually beginning to like the new Mac laptops which
> are BSD under the hood.

I've been using the no-brand blue ones that contain Prolific PL2303  
chipsets, with flawless results on both OS X and Linux.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812107108

OS X drivers here:
http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31

For Linux, drivers ship with the mainline kernel as pl2303.ko (which  
will probably be loaded automatically if you have a late-model  
distribution).
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Michael Shields
Sr. Systems Programmer
AOL Network Security