help needed

[Tod Merley]

On 9/4/06, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tod
> i tried but didnt worked as google said :) ... i just want to know
> about the usb device in dev directory ... i mean /dev/???
> my flash usb drive is kingston 256 mb
> also tell me whats is the standard com1 and com2 devices in ubuntu ???
> my system is dell inspiron 2500 laptop :)
>
>
> Waqas
>
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> If Windows is the solution, can we please have the problem back?
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Hi Waqas!

If there is a "usb" directory in /dev you will have to "migrate" to it
to see.  However, most USB flash drives get into the /dev directory as
say "sda" :

# Here I use ls and grep to see if any sd? - insert flash drive - new result!
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tod at tod-desktop:/dev$ ls | grep sd?
tod at tod-desktop:/dev$ ls | grep sd?
sda
tod at tod-desktop:/dev$
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As for your question about the com ports - the serial How-To:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Serial-HOWTO/#ss4.3

Good Hunting!

Tod