Andy Street wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 08:24 +0100, Steve Kirk wrote:
>> Anyhow, is anyone on this list using a similar kind of adapter? I'd be
>> interested in any recommendations or problems anyone has experienced using
>> the adapter under any linux distro (or *BSD or Solaris, for that matter).
>
> I have one of these[1] adapters which I picked up from Novatech[2]. I've
> used it mainly for console access and transferring data from my GPS on
> Ubuntu Dapper and Feisty without a problem.
>
> lsusb reports it as:
>
> ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
I second this.
All the USB/serial devices I've seen use this chipset, including my GPS.
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