[rescue] USB port card for sBus?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 18:42:31 CDT 2008


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
>> I dunno, but you bring up a good point - what about using a serial to
>> USB adapter? In *theory* they should work either way,
> 
> Whose theory would that be?  USB doesn't work that way.

Why not?  There's nothing in the USB spec that would cause making a bus 
enumerator that talks upstream to a computer with RS-232/423 serial, is 
there?  The device would need a whole load of smarts, granted, but what 
would make it impossible?

Peace...  Sridhar



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