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

[Sam Crooks]

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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:23:52 -0800
> From: matthew zeier <mrz at velvet.org>
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Laptop USB-to-serial adapters - Break sequence?
> To: Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net>
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Message-ID: <436AF068.1010903 at velvet.org>
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> > 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.


Hi Jay,

If you are shopping for a laptop.... get the RS-232 port on it... they
still make them.  I have a Dell D610 with a DB9 RS-232 on the back _and_
on the docking station, running RHEL4, Fedora Core 4, WinXP and Win2003
Server  (I can't wait until Apple releases their i686-runnable 0sX
version... :-)  ) 

VMWare Workstation 5.5 performance is acceptable for everything under
RHEL4, under Fedora4 for your Office-type apps it is OK... not so hot
for Visio.
(but Fedora4 will talk to your iPod and GPS units that RHEL4
won't  :-|  )

Minicom works OK, but PowerTerm is a much nicer Linux term program, for
$100... worth it..

I have always had really bad luck with the damn usb converters not
working properly or not being around...  and it is hard enough to make
Linux talk to a lot of usb stuff without adding the complication of some
obscure usb device...



> All the crappy DELLs management forced on me are like that - so I have a bin 
> of USB->db9 dongles now.  Works just like a normal serial port (except that 
> someone invariably loses the dongle right around the time some piece of 
> hardware craps out).
> 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  What models Matt??



> And to your subject, break sequence works the same.
> 



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