USB to serial adapter

Janos Dohanics web at 3dresearch.com
Sat May 9 14:03:28 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2 May 2015 16:55:00 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have an old VT100 terminal and want this connect to a laptop running
> FreeBSD which has only USB ports (just for fun to participate in some
> Vintage Computer Festival). Anybody knows a good adapter which works
> with our uplcom(4) driver?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	matthias
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These two seem to have Prolific chipset (haven't used them though):

http://www.sabrent.com/category/cables/SBT-USC1M/
http://www.sabrent.com/category/cables/CB-RS232/

This cable works well connecting m1n1wall/pfSense boxes to my laptop:

http://www.sabrent.com/category/cables/SBT-FTDI/

-- 
Janos Dohanics


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