Good USB Serial Adapters

Loren M. Lang lorenl at alzatex.com
Sun Nov 14 11:44:29 GMT 2004


I'm looking for good USB Serial adapters for FreeBSD.  Currently all the
work has been done on a couple of Linux boxes, but I'd like to be able to
use my own desktop for some of the work.  Looking at the Hardware Guide,
it looks like FreeBSD supports a lot less drivers than Linux currently
does, specifically it doesn't support keyspan adapters.  Most of our
current usb serial adapters are keyspan, but we do have two adapters
that use the pl2303 driver.  In my experience, the adapters using the
pl2303 driver in linux had a lot more problems not working and sometimes
required rebooting linux.  One of them is an IO Gear adapter and I'm not
sure what the other brand is, but both had problems with the same
driver.  Now the keyspan ones that I'd really like to use have worked
perfectly since we started using them in linux.  My question is what
devices should I buy that will work the best and is there any way to use
the keyspan adapters so we don't need to purchase any more?
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