any known working USB/serial converters?

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:30:01 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 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.
> >
> >pl2303 is pretty standard stuff. 
> 
> No it isn't Alan.  We found on the heyu list that 99% of the miss-comm 
> problems heyu was logging could be laid on their doorstep.  FTDI stuff just 
> works.

Is that statistically correlated for market share and also for the fact
that all your users are presumably using the same exact product that came
with the X10 hardware ?

pl2303 stuff just works as much as ftdi does (and both work well). The
pl2303 has one minor quirk which is that on mode changes (baud/char size
switch) it seems to dump its entire internal buffering so you lose more
data as you switch but thats really it.

Alan