any known working USB/serial converters?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  a while back, i was whining about the lack of functionality of a
>particular USB/serial converter:
>
>http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-test-list/2009-05/msg00398.html
>
>  does anyone have such a converter that just plain works out of the
>box?  i'm more than happy to buy and try another brand if it's the
>prolific product that's causing the trouble.
>
prolific adapters are well known trouble.  FTDI seem to be pretty transparent. 
I have several that Just Work(TM).

>rday
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