From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HWyAw-0004mq-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:12:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2THAFBa009239; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:10:15 GMT Received: from home.worldcontrol.com (adsl-67-124-145-220.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [67.124.145.220]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2THAEiv009234 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:10:15 GMT Received: from worldcontrol.com (unknown [10.7.77.6]) by home.worldcontrol.com (Postfix) with SMTP id D3E502B420A for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by worldcontrol.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:11:26 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:11:26 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB to Serial adapter setup Message-ID: <20070329171126.GA8108@top.worldcontrol.com> References: <460BBE78.1030106@ercbroadband.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <460BBE78.1030106@ercbroadband.org> X-No-Archive: yes X-Noarchive: yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-Archives-Salt: 14c2e6f9-d03f-4c55-9c79-d1f01d81f640 X-Archives-Hash: c6a0aae11187c23c5f2df99b6ee25b9e 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 -- Brian Litzinger The evolution of Unix: 1970 -x, 2000 --x, 2030, ----x -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list