[luau] usb/pcmcia to serial port converter?

[MonMotha]

Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Probably a big duh, but I need a serial port on my laptop to talk over 
> minicom to an embedded device for debug.  The duh part is I go in to 
> hook it up and realize that my laptop doesn't have a serial port.  So I 
> need to go get something that'll work for this, but I need it to be 
> linux compatible.  Any recommendations, beyond getting a new brain while 
> I'm at it?
> 
> -Charles

There's plenty of PCMCIA serial adapters.  There's also tons of USB serial 
adapters, many of which work in linux.  There's a big USB Linux compatibility 
site (google for it, it'll be the first hit) that will list compatibility.  You 
can usually find devices that are literally plug-n-play.  Just plug it in and 
linux says you have another serial port (usually numbered above 3 tho).

--MonMotha