USB to Serial Port Converters

[sdavmor]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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

They're not cheap, but they are rock solid. I mainly go to LAVA for
PCI & PCI express parallel port cards for use with dot-matrix impact
printers needed in customer stores.
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