[AusNOG] Retailers who stock USB-to-serial adaptors?

Thu Feb 14 12:19:07 EST 2013

I own a few of these:

http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product/sku/2853908/mfg_partno/EM449AA 

Admittedly they are more expensive than those you would find at a market,
however I have never had any compatibility issues across different windows
OSs and they work plug and play without driver installs.

Alex Maclaren
Network Operations Analyst
Cirrus Communications Pty Ltd 

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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Simon Kong Win Chang
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 12:09 PM
To: David Treacy
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Retailers who stock USB-to-serial adaptors?

did you buy your switching regulator? or you build one?

5V to the bluetooth to serial adapter i am assuming? (no datasheet on dx )

if 5V then it will be a (3.7V-4.2V) to 5V

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:49 AM, David Treacy <David_Treacy at nsc.net.au>
wrote:

I rolled my own:  http://imgur.com/a/Qhqea  :)

Use it with my android tablet, phone and PC. 

Bluetooth module from dealextreme.
http://dx.com/p/db9-rs232-wireless-bluetooth-serial-module-104301  $12ish

Lipo battery from a heavily crashed  and grounded mini-RC helicopter, and
switch circuit.  $priceless

Elastic band - $free 

Charge lasts for months, BT module draws hardly anything.  Charges in 10-15
mins.  Only flaw is that I can't use it and charge at the same time.  Not
sure how long it lasts under usage, but its long.   The other problem is
that changing the speed/settings on the fly is challenging.  9600/8/n/1 is
all we need right!

Cheers,

Dave

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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Simon Kong Win Chang
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 10:41 AM
To: Matt Perkins
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Retailers who stock USB-to-serial adaptors?

anything similar for android by any chance?

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

This ipad/phone based solution is  very cool. We have them rolled out for
all our ops' and resellers.

http://www.get-console.com/

Very Very handy and much lighter/more battery  then laptop in most cases.

Matt.

On 14/02/13 10:21 AM, Jake Anderson wrote:

pshaw, real men use 2 terminals, tail and echo > /dev/ttyfoo
(no internet makes installing serial packages hard, need serial packages to
get internet....)

On 13/02/13 22:21, Tim March wrote:

Any dongle with a Prolific PL2303 chipset (such as those sold by Jaycar)
will be reasonably compatible with most OS'.

The default Ubuntu/CentOS kernel will talk to them and OSX will talk to them
with something like https://github.com/berg/osx-pl2303

Kermit is the go if you've got hair on your chest and Minicom will work if
you dig on mothers milk =)

T.

On 13/02/13 9:39 PM, James Hodgkinson wrote:

Well, only accept the ATEN brand ones in my experience - from any
seller... though I guess I've been lucky in the past with MSY. I've
had ones from Jaycar that I ended up taking back for driver issues
etc. :S

James

On 13 February 2013 21:05, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au> wrote:

And you can live with the possibility that it will be some random piece of
crap that needs a special driver.

Still annoyed that I didn't test a 32GB SD card before I left the store a
few weeks ago.

Went to use it in a picture frame and my Mac won't talk to it.

Given that it was brand-name I assume it's dodgy as per bunny's blog (worth
Googling and reading).

Haven't bothered trying to take it back.

Cheers,

jsl

On 13/02/2013, at 9:05 PM, James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>
  wrote:

Msy if the job's not too early :)

On 13 February 2013 20:10, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:

Side joke, are you sure it is the cable that is faulty and not the <insert
whichever brand would most likely to be broken or for this to have the most
comedic value> router? </has had that problem>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
wrote:

DSE, JBHI, Hardly Normal possibly.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Mattia Rossi
<mattia.rossi.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

That should do it:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=XC4834

http://www.jaycar.com.au/stores.asp

Cheers,

Mat

Am 13.02.2013 10:47, schrieb Paul Gear:

Hi folks,

I've just realised that my USB-to-serial adaptor that stays in my laptop
bag is faulty and i have a job to use it on tomorrow. Which brick & mortar
retailers are most likely to stock them?

Thanks,
Paul

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