From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 18:03:40 PDT
It's not just electrical pinnings that are being changed.
It generally requires a driver to talk to whatever USB bridge chip is
inside the Entrega that does the signal conversion between serial and
USB.
USB is actually quite an involved protocol for how data moves about on
the USB bus.
The only part of USB that is remotely like plain serial is the fact it
says Serial in it's name.
The similarity stops there.
usbSerial _may_ work with that device
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 09:49 AM, suppaman wrote:
>
>> The only downside to the Entrega is that it does not have OS X drivers
>> so you have to use OS 9
>
> Why has a adapter need to have a driver?
> I thought they were merely electrical adapter..
>
> Anyway I am using (and I plan to use) linux, so I think I'd use
> usbserial
> module, incompatibilities ?
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