C3000 && Usb-serial Adapter

[drnick]

hello

In my other posts I was atempting to get a serial gps to work with my c3000 via the CE-170TS serial cable.  Without luck I retuned the cable to amazon.  I am looking for a usb to serial adapter that will work with the C3000 either out of the box or with minor tweaking.  Ive seen post of others having sucess using their serial GPS's with a Usb-serial cable and qpegps software.

If anyone knows of a usb-serial adapter that will work preferably from a store in the US w/ an exact name and model it would be appreciated. Even if just the chipset is known I could use that to find a peticular device with that chipset.

Thanks alot.

[drnick]

The iConcepts Usb-Serial Adapter from CompUSA has the Prolific pl2303 chipset.  The kernel modules that Johnathan compiled in the other USB-Serial for C3000 thread worked fantastically.  Thank you Johnathan!

[neuroshock]

The iConcepts Usb-Serial Adapter from CompUSA has the Prolific pl2303 chipset.  The kernel modules that Johnathan compiled in the other USB-Serial for C3000 thread worked fantastically.  Thank you Johnathan!
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This is really great info, and hopefully will get me back in business with my serial GPS setup I used with my previous Zaurii on my C3100!

Which product exactly was it?  I turned up two similar ones when I searched for it on the CompUSA.com website.

Here are the two links/items:

[a href=\"http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=312963&pfp=SEARCH]http://www.compusa.com/products/product_in...2963&pfp=SEARCH[/url]

and

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_in...4605&pfp=SEARCH

Thanks!

-NeuroShock

[drnick]

The one that my store had in stock was the first link.  The one labled as "LINX".  Something tells me that both have the same Prolific pl2303 chipset.  But the one that I have tested was labeled as LINX like the below link.

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_in...2963&pfp=SEARCH

It worked with my serial gps setup.  You may need to chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0 to get it to work properly.  Other than that using the instructions found at

http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/teaching/enjmr/Zaurus_SL-C3000/

everything worked out great.

Good Luck!