Rs232 serail to USB(Raspberry)

[chirag]

Hi, i have a device which gives the serial data from its RS232 serial port, i want to read that data in raspberry pi(USB port). which serial to usb converter can i use for this application ?
-thank you

[scotty101]

Something like this device should work.

[chirag]

cool thanks a lot for your reply.
And which drivers should i have to install in raspberry ?

[chirag]

And can i use pl2303 ??

[KMTronic]

Hi,

We have tested similar projects where send from Raspberry Pi simple RS232 commands and read replies.
Hope this information help you.

This use direct UART communication:
http://www.kmtronic.com/controlling-rs4 ... ry-pi.html

This use USBtoSerial converter with FT232 chip:
http://www.kmtronic.com/controlling-usb ... ry-pi.html

[chirag]

yeah thanks i will go through that.

[Paul Moir]

I ran into a weird problem where I got kernel panics with sound and the prolific RS-232 USB converters from a couple different manufacturers. An old, power hungry and buggy converter I have doesn't cause this problem. I've got some of adafruit's fdti converters on the way.