[PLUG] USB serial support

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Tue Dec 9 13:12:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:51:03PM -0800, Zot O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:45, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >   Can someone suggest where I get the vendor and product codes for this
> > puppy? Also, I do not have usb-serial.o on my new laptop; only usb-serial.h.
> > However, I do have /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttySUB1.
> > 
> 
> They will be in dmesg or /var/log/message when linux sees the usb device
> attach.

An alternative: mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb (or make sure it's
in /etc/fstab) and then get the usb utilities and issue "lsusb". Kinda
like lspci.

I'm fairly certain you need to the mount to make hotplug work right, too.

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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