Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: usb to serial converters

 

On 07/20/2010 05:14 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
>
> On 20Jul2010 16:09, James Jolin <jjolin@itol.com
> <mailto:jjolin%40itol.com>> wrote:
> | On 07/20/2010 03:58 PM, Joan Leach wrote:
> | > Most likely you'll have to have some RS-232 Serial device plugged in
> | > before it will be seen. Then you might have to load some programs that
> | > will use it. Is it a printer, modem, or some specialized device?
> |
> | Joan,
> | I have the converter plugged in and connected to one of my radios (a
> | Uniden Scanner), Unfortunately, the programs I want to run are all
> | Windows programs. I have tried to run them with Wine, but so far no luck.
>
> After you plug (or unplug) the USB device, does a relevant message
> appear at the bottom of the output of the "dmesg" command?
> --
> Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au <mailto:cs%40zip.com.au>> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
Cameron,
Thanks for that tip...yes it is detected and undetected. It is attached
to ttyUSB0. I will do some more experimenting to see if I can get VB to
see it.
Jim

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