USB Question

[debian]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 08:15 +1000, Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> Eric Krause wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on the following. I am 
> > trying to connect my Garmin forerunner and PDA to my Ubuntu box via a 
> > Belkin F5U409 USB-Serial cable.
> > 
> > I have looked around and the best that I saw was source code for a 
> > driver called mct_u232.c.
> > (http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/0-test12/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c)
> > 
> > I am fairly new to Ubuntu and don't know where to begin with that.
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> Just a quick check, have you tried plugging the device in?  It may just 
> work as the driver you linked to should already be on your system, no 
> compilation required.  After you plug it in, go to System -> Preferences 
> -> Hardware Information and see if your device is listed there.  You can 
> also do a "dmesg" from the terminal.  You should see some lines 
> indicated a new USB device was found.
> -Corey
> 
actually, if your going to use dmesg, type "dmesg | tail" instead (w/o
quotes). doing this will just display the last few lines of dmesg's
output. otherwise, youll get thousands of pages worth of output that
isnt relevant to what you are looking for

-cj