[NCLUG] multiple-serial port laptop?

[Benson Chow]

careful, lotsa usb serials dont work completely with linux yet.

I got burned with my belkin 7-port (4USB,2Ser,1Par) - the serials didnt
work and parallel worked poorly.

But now with 2.4.0, the serials somewhat work.  I could get them to work
with my handshake-less digital camera but not with my 14.4 external modem.
Parallel printer port - no use for it for me, my usb printer suddenly
worked properly in 2.4.0 as well (thought it was a gonner too when it
didnt work with the dev kernels...  After getting this thing to work, it's
nice being able to hotplug mice and it sure reduced the number of fat
cables I needed to pass between my computer closet and monitor/work area.
Now if I could somehow get my usb keyboard working properly and get rid of
another cable...

The serials end up at major 188, minor 0 and 1.  Character devices
obviously.  I don't know if I mknodded them manually so i dunno the
proper name for them but somehow I have them as /dev/usb/tts/[01] ...  I
might have read that's the devfs name so I cloned it though I dont devfs.

-bc

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, S. Luke Jones wrote:

> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:05:06 -0700
> From: S. Luke Jones <luke at frii.com>
> Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] multiple-serial port laptop?
>
> Matt Taggart wrote:
> > How about USB-serial? If they are fairly modern laptops both will
> > have USB and then you can use multiple USB-serial adapters.
>
> Cool. Does that work with Linux now that 2.4 has shipped?
> Would I just see /dev/ttySx, x in 0..k+n-1, where k is the
> number of stock serial ports and n is the number provided
> by the USB-to-serial doo-dad.
>
> > Why do you need two anyway?(I know, you could tell me but then you'd
> > have to  kill me).
>
> Standard practice is to complicate things as much as possible.
> If I only had one serial port it would be a slam dunk. Actually
> if you remember the application, I want to be sure there's
> enough complexity to keep the sales guy humble.
>
> --
> Luke Jones  luke vortex frii fullstop com
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