On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 09:20 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
port. We have decided that the good old RS-232 is still best for this type of thing. Too bad real ports are going away. I guess we will soon be adding RS-232 interface cards to systems. Moxa has some really neat serial-to-ethernet boxes. I have seen such devices. The problem is the non-deterministic nature of
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 09:09 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: packets on the ethernet, versus the hardware interrupt caused by the serial port line toggle done by the GPS.
+1 These devices are epic-fail for a wide variety of use-cases. They work very well if you are just streaming data back or forth and don't require flow-control.
But we are always looking. Serial ports are going the way of the dodo. Even if there are some real world needs for them. Just not enough of them to keep them standard on consumer grade computers.
It would seem you need to build a native-USB interface. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org