[TriLUG] USB -> serial dongle that works with Linux?

[John Broome]

Greg, i've successfully used the below model with linux and with osx.
Hasn't given me any problems.

On 5/11/07, jason Tower <jtower at cerient.net> wrote:
> IOGEAR GUC232A
>
> Greg Brown wrote:
> > Does anyone know of such a beast?  I have seen one, years ago, in the
> > possession of someone at Oculan (Bill V. perhaps?).  Whoever had it the
> > device worked with OS X and other USB to 9 pin adapters did not.  I do A LOT
> > of Cisco work and as such I need to be able to connect my soon-to-be-mine
> > Linux laptop to said routers.
> >
> > I'm thinking of ordering a Emperor Linux Kiwi, a very small laptop made by
> > Sony.
> >
> > http://www.emperorlinux.com/systems/small/kiwi/
> >
> > I have a choice of many flavors of Linux and I'm leaning towards Debian or
> > Ubuntu.  I install extra packages (nmap, wireless tools, etc) so I lean more
> > towards Debian just for the unfettered apt-get environment but Ubuntu is, of
> > course, Ubuntu and people seem to love it.  I haven't used it in a while but
> > when I did it seemed to work well.  One thing I really love about Debian is
> > the fairly automated upgrade process between releases.  Does Ubuntu upgrade
> > in the same way?
> >
> > Debian or Ubuntu: which would you select?
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