Support for pl2302/pl2303/x based USB to RS232 cables

[moggie2002]

I need a mini server with a USB and couple of RS232 ports, and this or the Bubba2 seem a good choice, but I have a couple of questions - any advice welcome!

1) I was looking at USB to serial cables using the pl2303/x chipset, and a recent post in the Bubba2 forum suggests that support is in the kernel for the pl2302; by association does this cover the 2303/x too?

2) A cable would use the single USB port on a Bubba server; should expanding this with a mini hub work in conjunction with a serial cable?

I'd expect that everything would be fine, but just wondering about driver support in whatever kernel version is used and also power.

[AArdo]

1) I was looking at USB to serial cables using the pl2303/x chipset, and a recent post in the Bubba2 forum suggests that support is in the kernel for the pl2302; by association does this cover the 2303/x too?

From my Bubba2 syslog using kernel 2.6.26.5 out of the box:
kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
kernel: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
kernel: usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
kernel: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
kernel: pl2303 1-1.1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
kernel: usb 1-1.1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
kernel: pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver

Cheers
Anders

[moggie2002]

Thanks for the reply on that.