[AusNOG] usb -> comm adapter

[Patrick Cole]

In my experience stick to the FTDI chipset.  The prolific (most common)
tend to have driver buffer overrun issues particularly on *nix platforms.
You probably won't see this too much though unless doing xmodem uploads etc.

Patrick

Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:05:48PM +1000, James Troy wrote:


>    Hi everyone,
> 
>                    Just got a new laptop from work and it turns out they got
>    me one with no comm. Ports, which makes it hard to console to just about
>    anything, anyone got any recommendations/horror stories for the many
>    different brand usb adapters?
> 
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