USB to Serial Port Converters

[Karl F. Larsen]

sdavmor wrote, On 02/28/2010 08:10 PM:
> Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 2/27/2010 4:53 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>> A year or two ago I bought one of these, with CE  FC as the maker
>>> of this device. It does not work well at all.
>>>
>>> I need one that reliably puts 5 volts from the USB onto the
>>> proper serial port pin. I also need to use the serial port
>>> XON/XOF flow control.
>>>
>>> Can anyone give me a clue as to what to buy? My old one provides
>>> the 5 volts for about 15 seconds and quits.
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Unless you have a laptop, why don't you just buy a real serial port
>> for your computer.  It will have the appropriate 15 volts on the
>> signal pins too.
>
> LAVA out of Canada does a fine range of PCI&  PCI Express cards for
> genuine serial / parallel and combo ports. I've used them for several
> years.
>
> <http://www.lavalink.com/>


	Thanks for the URL. I went right to the LAVA company and they 
do make a single serial port PCI card that has information on 
using that card on Linux!

	The only down side is the cost. It will cost about $80.00 
with shipping from the LAVA store.

73 Karl


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