On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:03 +1300, Michael Hope wrote:
On 19 October 2012 11:44, Deepak Saxena dsaxena@linaro.org wrote:
Hi all,
For the single zImage demo @ Connect, our tentative plan is to have multiple boards connected to a single host so we can just have one monitor displaying multiple console sessions and then run 'uname -a' to show that the kernels are the same (this will not win any awards for visual appeal). I don't want to spend a week trying to get a driver to work so looking for suggestions on specific brands of USB multi-port serial adapters that are known to 100% work with Linux. As in you've tried it, maybe own one (hey, how about your bring it with you?!), and it worked, not as in "I read on google that it should work" :).
Anything with a FTDI chip in it is good and a USB hub does the multi-port part.
That's my setup at home too. You definitely need to make sure you get the FTDI chip-set, and my experience is that most adaptors which don't specify the chipset have the Prolific ones - which has never worked for me, not even in the days when my job required I use Windows.