[c-nsp] USB to Serial Converter recommendation

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Ziv Leyes wrote:

> And by the way, no matter the brand, they all seem to use the same 
> Prolific PL2303 chip, no need to reinvent the wheel... Ziv

I have seen and used others...but the last time I went looking for 
several, they all seemed to use the PL2303 chip...and these will send a 
break.  If you have one that doesn't, you can probably still use the baud 
rate trick to send something resembling a break.  Assuming you're talking 
to a cisco device at 9600bps, set the baud rate in your term program to 
1200, hit space a few times, then change back to 9600.

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