On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 02:09 -0500, pursley1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > With the help of another person, we were able to deduce that the problem > was because of Fedora, which by default, does not give access to the USB > ports to users. There is no group to add to fix this problem and it > took changing the global security permissions to allow everyone full > access to the ports to get it to work. This really should be addressed > on future versions of Fedora so I don't have to re-fix this problem > every time the system updates the security. How do I recommend it? Which ports are you talking about? If you mean /dev/ttyUSB0 etc., these only come into existence when a USB device is connected. They are configured by the udev subsystem. AFAIK, if you use libusb as I suggested, you don't need to worry about this. poc
