[Swansea Hackspace] Serial usb ports - Help

[Ceri Clatworthy]

You need a USB to Serial device.
Like the FTDI cable

Just a usb port is not a serial port
Ceri
On 20 May 2015 22:52, "Alan Cox" <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 May 2015 21:58:18 +0100
> Tim Moore <timmoore47 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've got a aged Thinkpad with 4 USB 2 ports,
> >
> > Its running Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit.
> >
> > I'm trying to talk to a MicroMite using picocom.
> >
> > But it doesn't find ttyusb0
> >
> > Looking in /dev/  there are loads of tty's but not ttyusb0
>
> What tty you get may depend upon the device your USB-serial dongle is
> using. Generic ACM interfaces will be /dev/ttyACM* while the various USB
> dongles will be /dev/ttyUSB* (note caps)
>
> If the dongle USB identifier isn't known then you've got another problem
> 8)
>
> Also check lsusb - make sure the device is visible!
>
> Alan
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