[Duo2400] Re: ADB to USB?

[Ivan Drucker]

This doesn't make any sense. How would it possibly work even on a PPC 
Mac? We're talking about using a USB device with ADB or serial, right? 
Even if you were running an OS (8.6 or later) which supports USB, how 
would the OS's USB drivers even know that there was USB out there 
somewhere? All it would see is ADB or serial, as always. Some third party 
would have to write a driver, right? And I'm quite sure no such driver 
exists.

The only way I could see *anything* possibly working is a USB serial 
device, such as a modem, going through some smart "box" or cable which 
converted that to regular serial (and I do not believe such devices 
exist). And converters which are designed for attaching serial devices to 
USB can't be flipped around, since they require drivers provided by their 
manufacturer.

With Win 98, how does it see a serial port as being connected to a USB 
hub? How could it possibly see USB devices through the serial driver, 
unless there were some piece of software supplied by the manufacturer of 
a specific device?

I'm sorry, this just doesn't float. Perhaps I am missing something.

Ivan.
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>the problem is not the devices but support for USB (PC/Mac)
>Older (Operating) systems do not support USB.
>
>I tried it out on a non usb Acer (486) laptop also just for kicks. 
> Using serial port to USB hub system no go with windows 95 even after 
>upgrade to win 95 with USB support.  But going to Win 98 it would work.
>
>As for mac  PPC only....... It will not work with a 68k machine since 
>the systems do not support USB.
>And frankly the end cost would be more that its worth.  Running 8.5 or 
>higher on a 2300 is slow already.
>Mad Dog can try it out in his Lab sometime.
>
>Brandy
>
>jessicat at jmug.org wrote:
>
>> I think we're talking about using USB devices on an ADB only 
>> computer.  You are seriously doing this?
>> Andrew
>>
>
>
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