[COLUG] Dosemu, a measure of success

[Larry W Howell]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> 
> The drivers for the Prolific USB to serial chip set are built into  
> most OSes these day (Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows). So for a  
> NoName device check to see if it is Prolific based.
> 
> There are a couple of competing chipsets but for those you have to  
> reply on the maker for drivers. And usually they're only on Windows.
> 
> If you want to look for a reliable brand Keyspan are very good. And  
> seem to use Prolific (at least in the ones I have).
> 
> Mark
> 

Support for the early FTDI chips have been in the kernel since 2.6.11 and 
support for later chips added as they were released.  The most recent ones 
were added in 2.6.20, and I've had no problem with using several converters 
based on these chips.  They provide full hardware handshaking support.  The 
two recently purchased ones (using the FT323R chip) have a pair of blue LEDs 
to indicate RX/TX activity.

Larry