[TriLUG] USB -> serial dongle that works with Linux?
jason Tower
jtower at cerient.net
Fri May 11 13:09:48 EDT 2007
IOGEAR GUC232A
Greg Brown wrote:
> Does anyone know of such a beast? I have seen one, years ago, in the
> possession of someone at Oculan (Bill V. perhaps?). Whoever had it the
> device worked with OS X and other USB to 9 pin adapters did not. I do A LOT
> of Cisco work and as such I need to be able to connect my soon-to-be-mine
> Linux laptop to said routers.
>
> I'm thinking of ordering a Emperor Linux Kiwi, a very small laptop made by
> Sony.
>
> http://www.emperorlinux.com/systems/small/kiwi/
>
> I have a choice of many flavors of Linux and I'm leaning towards Debian or
> Ubuntu. I install extra packages (nmap, wireless tools, etc) so I lean more
> towards Debian just for the unfettered apt-get environment but Ubuntu is, of
> course, Ubuntu and people seem to love it. I haven't used it in a while but
> when I did it seemed to work well. One thing I really love about Debian is
> the fairly automated upgrade process between releases. Does Ubuntu upgrade
> in the same way?
>
> Debian or Ubuntu: which would you select?
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