On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:15 -0500, Richard Creighton wrote:
On 2010-11-30 Stan offered the following:
I am looking on ebay at a serial-to-usb adapter to use with a trackball that has a serial connector on its cable. This thing comes with a CD for Windows. Does anyone know if this is something I can use on a Linux machine? What would I need to have to use it? I bought an el-cheapo "gender-mender" type converter from Radio Shack and plugged it in .... no software required, from 'Doze or anyone else and it just works.....threw the 'coaster' that "Doze machines must apparently need for some reason away before it contaminated anything :) I think in the case of a mouse, the rs-232 is close enough to USB that the little converter (plus it's internal resistors/diodes/whatever) need no software, just the pin diddling.
This isn't true; it does require software, but the drivers are built-in and are loaded automatically. There are only a handful of USB/RS-232 chips, the majority of which are supported out-of-the-box. For instance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org