On Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Ian Forde wrote:
I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack earlier this year. The updated pl2303 driver is already in the mainstream kernel as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. So every time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm.
Seems like it would be simpler to get an adapter that work with the current/native pl2303 driver.
For the purpose of serial consoles, these two adapters work for me under pl2303 without any problems using current/past CentOS5 kernels:
Tripp-Lite U209-000-R: http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430
Cables-To-Go 26886: http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5fid=101&sku=26886
Think they cost about US$15 each at provantage.com.
# uname -rpmi 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
# lsmod|grep pl2303
# # Inserted serial-to-USB adapter
# lsusb|grep Tripp-Lite Bus 002 Device 004: ID 2478:2008 Tripp-Lite U209-000-R Serial Port
# lsmod|grep pl2303 pl2303 53317 0 usbserial 67505 1 pl2303
Steve