I'm no expert, but if you want to use a serial device and you only have a USB port, don't you just buy an adapter cable, like this example? <http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=040816164724600&modulen o=29968>
Cheers, Dave My ze5570us has no external com port so I did get the Prolific-2303 adapter and have had pretty good luck with it. The down side is that when I am using
On Monday 16 August 2004 10:53, Dave Howorth wrote: <SNIP> the USB port I cannot read/burn a CD-R w/o disrupting things & having to reboot to cure the problem. Simply ceasing the given activity is not enough. If I first unplug the Prolific & then read/burn a CD-R I have no problems. I am cetain this boils down to IRQs ...and the 2.4.21-xxx kernel isn't very good at IRQ sharing, though it is selected in the kernel config. FWIW... -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio "If music be the food of love, why can't rabbits sing?"