On 8/5/06, Richard Freeman < rich@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

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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.
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