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From: Brian Litzinger <brian@worldcontrol.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB to Serial adapter setup
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:11:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329171126.GA8108@top.worldcontrol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460BBE78.1030106@ercbroadband.org>

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:26:16AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> I've got a USB to Serial adapter I want to use in Gentoo to talk to my 
> Cisco devices via console, however, none of the docs I"ve found are very 
> current (most for the 2.4 kernel), can someone point me to a good set of 
> instructions on how to get this thing working?  I've got the module 
> compiled and installed but can't get any farther.
> 
> Help?

modprobe ftdi (make sure it is built with your kernel or as a module)

use /dev/tts/USB0

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29 13:26 [gentoo-amd64] USB to Serial adapter setup Mark Haney
2007-03-29 15:40 ` P.V.Anthony
2007-03-29 15:54   ` Mike Doty
2007-03-30  4:51     ` P.V.Anthony
2007-03-30 12:10   ` Mark Haney
2007-03-30 20:34     ` Joshua Hoblitt
2007-03-30 20:43       ` Mark Haney
2007-03-29 17:11 ` Brian Litzinger [this message]

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