David Fletcher wrote: > At 13:53 29/03/2007, you 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? > > From memory, it's something like /dev/ttyUSB0 > > Remember to add yourself to the uucp group. > > D > You may also want to run "tail /var/log/messages" after plugging in the device. It will show you the port assigned, or show that Linux does not know how to handle that specific device. Here is an example of a properly detected device: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for ark3116 ark3116 converter detected usb 2-1: ark3116 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usbcore: registered new interface driver ark3116 Here is an unknown device: (ETI2 eBook) usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice I trimmed the messages to fit - they all start with something like: Mar 29 09:17:08 mikkel kernel: Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
