I've loaded a Compaq laptop with my 1st attempt at Linux using Linux Mint. I have some test equipment that the manufacturer says will run under Linux. It interfaces via a serial <> USB port connection. The setup includes a script to detect the port. To get the serial port number you run the perl script:
./detect-re.pl
I finally navigated to the appropriate DIR with the file and tried the script. The result:
bash: ./detect-re.pl: Permission denied
I'm not sure what that's all about but I then tried to run the script in a different manor:
perl detect-re.pl
This time it identified the test equipment and gave me the information:
Serial port 1: /dev/ttyUSB0
Now for the tricky part. The needed software is Windoze and I opened it with WINE. As instructed in the manufacturer's README file I set the port to ttyUSB0 (that's a zero and not O by the way) and restarted the software. This time I got, in part, the following:
The program could not open /dev/ttyUSB0 to communicate to the analyzer
I've only been playing with Linux for a few days and I'm quite sure that there's some pilot error involved here as the learning curve is VERY steep. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Rick
Posted by: ve7tk@yahoo.ca
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