On Sunday 03 July 2005 20:02, Matt Evans wrote: [...]
I use an ex-Ericsson T610 datacable to talk to the E2. It's USB-powered and contains a PL2303 USB-serial 'uart' and has no line drivers.
I've just been out looking for a cable from the various high street mobile phone shops. Four out of the six shops didn't have anything on display, or wouldn't talk to me; one had a T610 data cable for 30 quid, which I politely turned down; and the Nokia shop said, "F-Bus? What's that?"
Sigh.
Any suggestions on good mail order places to get one?
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(Actually if you CBA to crack it open and change it from 3.3 to 5V it should work at 3.3 too. (though of course the inputs may not be 5V tolerant on your cable - consult the data sheet, a good proportion of the el cheapo no-brandname cables have the PL2303 in though.))
A PL2303 would be nice; Linux supports it, and there's none of that faffing around with serial ports. (Instead you get to faff around with USB ports. Whee!)