-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2013-09-25 at 21:12 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Will e.g. a serial card work in linux with my serial modem or other old device with serial port? The same question applies to parallel and IDE connections.
I bought a USB serial port a few years ago, to connect to the console port on network and telecom equipment. It works fine with Linux. I haven't tried it with a modem though.
It may work as long as you don't really need all the wires, or if you don't have strict timing constraints. Meaning: the serial port directly drives an IRQ cable, so the CPU atends it instantly, within an instruction or two. Via USB you have to wait till the device is polled. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJHjNAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WW0gCbB/jYv2/FR3p9EMNZBKTJZAkd 0/IAnR6Th2Stf8UOxgBSQpqMcYcal9Nx =el2V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org