On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:30:01 -0400 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > >On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT) > > > >"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> a while back, i was whining about the lack of functionality of a > >> particular USB/serial converter: > >> > >> http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-test-list/2009-05/msg00398.html > >> > >> does anyone have such a converter that just plain works out of the > >> box? i'm more than happy to buy and try another brand if it's the > >> prolific product that's causing the trouble. > > > >pl2303 is pretty standard stuff. > > No it isn't Alan. We found on the heyu list that 99% of the miss-comm > problems heyu was logging could be laid on their doorstep. FTDI stuff just > works. Is that statistically correlated for market share and also for the fact that all your users are presumably using the same exact product that came with the X10 hardware ? pl2303 stuff just works as much as ftdi does (and both work well). The pl2303 has one minor quirk which is that on mode changes (baud/char size switch) it seems to dump its entire internal buffering so you lose more data as you switch but thats really it. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
