any known working USB/serial converters?

[Rick Stevens]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
>   that's what i vaguely recall hearing once upon a time, so it's nice
> to have at least a bit of confirmation that i should hie me hence to
> the geek store and pick up another brand to test. thanks.

I also use an FTDI unit which hasn't failed me.  Uses the ftdi_sio
module and is identified as a FTCEGM4N in dmesg (USB ID 0403:6001).
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