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New multi I/O card installed

Some days ago I exchanged my MOS9835 based I/O card with newer version based on MOS9845. Old one had one parallel port (which I never used) and two serial ports. New one do not have parallel port but has 6 serial ports instead. Why so much?

The answer is simple — more devices on desk require [...]

How many serial ports are enough?

My desktop has few RS232 ports:

one FTDI RS232-USB converter one connected to mainboard two on additional PCI card (which also gives me parallel port)

When I got BeagleBoard I had to remove the one connected to mainboard — connected that cable to BB itself. But today I got new package from Atmel: NGW100. And it means need [...]

Serial cables for BUG

During this year FOSDEM Bug Labs gave 4 BUG Starter Kits for people. Two were given for best ideas of application/module/way of using BUG — here Ken and Peter selected best entries. Other two were possible to win by donating FOSDEM.

I already knew two of those lucky guys. If you are one of other ones [...]

Feel the power of USB

Today I got few USB gadgets:

Ethernet card (Damicom 9601 based) RS232 cable multi-port card-reader with USB 2.0 hub integrated (powered)

So during restructure of my USB network I tried to connect all my USB devices to desktop. With two external hubs I got out of ports…

Effect:

12:00 hrw@home:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 055: ID 0a46:9601 Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Bus 001 Device [...]

Serial cable for Zaurus

Today I received Sharp CE-170TS serial cable. It was donated by one of OpenZaurus users which does not make any use of it. After some checking which RS232 port on my desktop machine is /dev/tts/0 and which /dev/tts/1 I got the second one working and installed minicom to get usable terminal (I used minicom years [...]