Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB-Serial Converter?
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:43:35
Message-Id: 7c08b4dd0608121041p365686a5wf6e2c5c152344d2b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB-Serial Converter? by Richard Freeman
1 Hmmmm.... I see no ttyUSB when I do ls /dev/tty*. Is there anywhere else it
2 could be?
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4 Thanks,
5 -Peter
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7 On 8/5/06, Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
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13 > > I'm very new to list servs, so I don't really know if I'm going about
14 > > this the right way, but I can't really find my USB-serial converter in
15 > > /dev, and I would appreciate if someone could tell me where I might find
16 > > it. I'm using an FTDI rs-232 to usb converter, and I installed the
17 > > driver from their site. I tried
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19 > > echo "test" >> /dev/ttyS0 and the light on the dongle didn't blink,
20 > > which it does when there's data traveling through it. I tried that with
21 > > /dev/ttyS0-4. /proc/bus/usb/devices gives me this, among other things:
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25 > I've got two of them - they're on /dev/ttyUSB0 and 1. The biggest pain
26 > for me was getting them to show up on a particular port all of the time.
27 > I managed to do this by tweaking the hotplug config to be dependent on
28 > what USB port the device was plugged into.
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30 > You do need to have the appropriate kernel drivers enabled.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB-Serial Converter? Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net>