On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:53:32AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > I've got a USB to Serial port adapter and for the life of me I can't > find the right port for it. I want to be able to use the adapter in > linux to communicate with some Cisco devices we have so that I don't > have to boot to Windows. > > Any ideas? "ls /dev/tty*" should show one or more devices with "USB" in the name, e.g. '/dev/ttyUSB0". That should be the device you want. You must have the serial adapter installed for the device to be there. You might also look at /var/log/messages immediately after plugging in the adapter to see what the kernel made of it. Mine shows, e.g.: Mar 29 07:54:47 dragon kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Mar 29 07:54:47 dragon kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for pl2303 Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: pl2303 2-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303 Mar 29 07:54:48 dragon kernel: drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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