Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:45:43 -0300 From: AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <200807310745.43407.asstec@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20080731100821.GA15213@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <3A7C430E-AA1C-4CF3-88F5-F7A0EBE3273A@bnc.net> <20080731100821.GA15213@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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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=20 freebsd's usb drivers out-of-the-box since 5.3 or 6 for sure, works flawles= s=20 with minicom Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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