On Thursday 28 December 2006 14:11, Jeffrey Ross wrote: [and I snipped] > >I've been successful at using a pl2303 serial adapter and have been > using it for some time: > >Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0557:2008 ATEN International Co., Ltd UC-232A >Serial Port [pl2303] That is not the set of ID numbers I get in dmesg. >I don't think I've needed anything other than RX/TX and ground but I can >verify if the other lines actually work. > >I do have 2 other USB to serial adapters: > >Bus 004 Device 002: ID 050d:0109 Belkin Components F5U109/F5U409 PDA > Adapter Bus 004 Device 003: ID 050d:0109 Belkin Components > F5U109/F5U409 PDA Adapter > >Both of these also work flawlessly and much to my surprise were able to >drive reliably the X10 firecracker unit which runs by toggling the DTR > and RTS lines. Thats good to know also. >I would recommend that if you use more than 1 USB to serial adapter that >you make a udev entry for it. > >For example I created a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and >put the following line in: > >BUS=="usb", >SYSFS{serial}=="1234567",KERNEL=="ttyUSB*",SYMLINK+="x10",GROUP="uucp" > >What this does is creates a link from /dev/x10 pointing to whatever > device the usb to serial adapter with serial number 1234567 is actually > defined as (eg /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1 etc) > >Jeff That's a neat way to do it, thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.