USB Serial

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 12:21:19 UTC 2009


Ken Adams wrote:
> I have a USB-Serial converter on my laptop. I shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0.
> I cannot get wine to accept this and give a program access to "COM 1"
> 
> I have been working on a solution and found a fix that works to a
> problem, but it is only temporary. I need a fix that works through a
> reboot. I can manually delete /dev/ttyS0 and then put a symlink in to
> point ttyS0 - ttyUSB0.
> 
> How can I make this a permanent fix that works automagically after boot.
> 
> I am using 9.04
> 
> Rgds Ken.
> 
> 
	Hi Ken there are many USB to Serial converters but few work well. I
think your fix is better than any I have seen.

	I will have that problem with my new computer. No serial port so no way
to do Ham Radio Digital things. But will look for a new controller that
uses USB.

73 Karl


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