Hmmmm.... I see no ttyUSB when I do ls /dev/tty*. Is there anywhere else it could be? Thanks, -Peter On 8/5/06, Richard Freeman wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Peter Davoust wrote: > > I'm very new to list servs, so I don't really know if I'm going about > > this the right way, but I can't really find my USB-serial converter in > > /dev, and I would appreciate if someone could tell me where I might find > > it. I'm using an FTDI rs-232 to usb converter, and I installed the > > driver from their site. I tried > > > > echo "test" >> /dev/ttyS0 and the light on the dongle didn't blink, > > which it does when there's data traveling through it. I tried that with > > /dev/ttyS0-4. /proc/bus/usb/devices gives me this, among other things: > > > > > > I've got two of them - they're on /dev/ttyUSB0 and 1. The biggest pain > for me was getting them to show up on a particular port all of the time. > I managed to do this by tweaking the hotplug config to be dependent on > what USB port the device was plugged into. > > You do need to have the appropriate kernel drivers enabled. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE1QRmG4/rWKZmVWkRAvFgAJkBeqXVNap2bGTb2o2gieNriD2yMwCcDdSM > zBf4aK31928jKqOVT+k6K0c= > =MRKg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >