Laptop suggestions?

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On Thursday 31 July 2008 07:08:21 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote:
> > Drivers? Who cares. Serial port? Just plug in an USB-to-serial.
>
> You've obviously never used a USB-to-serial adapter.  Are you aware of
> the fact that there is no serial device class as part of the USB
> specification?  (Quite a great irony, if you ask me.  Universal SERIAL
> Bus, yet no serial device class...)  AFAIK, there isn't even a draft
> proposal for such.
>
> You *must* have drivers for a USB-to-serial adapter.  And every adapter
> is different, depending upon the adapter chipset used, many of which are
> not disclosed in product specifications, so there's no way to guarantee
> it'll work with FreeBSD.  On -stable (I believe) some people have
> mentioned which USB-to-serial adapters work great under FreeBSD and
> Windows, while others are horrible (dropping characters, broken flow
> control, interrupt issues, and many other problems).
>


I am not sure if that is true ...
I believe that are port config issues
I have Leadership USB to serial adaptor cable which works just fine with 
freebsd's usb drivers out-of-the-box since 5.3 or 6 for sure, works flawless 
with minicom

João







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