USB (*gasp*) modem?

David Hardy belovedbold357 at gmail.com
Sun May 13 21:09:59 EDT 2012


Well, what was the *other* qualification you and your colleague came up
with the other day?  Enquiring potential nerds wanna know.



On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >   If the laptop doesn't have an RS-232 port, one can obtain
> > USB<->RS232 adapters for small money.  The later are a
> > well-established product with a universal interface (USB serial
> > communications class.  They shouldn't need vendor-specific drivers
> > under any OS that supports USB.
>
> Oh, you'd be surprised. Apparently there are a zillion different
> USB<->RS232 adapter chipsets, and a zillion different drivers
> required to drive them. Linux is in good shape here, but some
> of other OSes..., not so much. Mac OS X, for example, needs
> third-party drivers to be able to use the most popular adapter-chips--
> and what's more, the drivers apparently suck and tend to crash the whole
> OS.
>
> > These also come in handy for connecting to the serial consoles on
> > routers, switches, and other IT gear.  Small pieces, loosely joined.
>
> It's funny--I was discussing working definitions of "nerd" with
> a colleague, the other day..., and one of the two qualifications
> that we came up with was something like `carries a multitude
> of interconnectable devices'....
>
> --
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