I believe Linux does have the drivers “built-in”, but not installed by defaul. I tried several distrros without joy. Oddly, I found I could use an ARM version running on my Asus TinkerBoard, which is a hopped up Raspberry Pi.
My conclusion is that I do not know how to make the driver, built in or not, work, and I tried a bunch of distros including Ubuntu, Debian and I lost track of others. None of the Intel versions had the driver active on an OOB install. Have you tried installing the Arduino IDE to see if will talk to Arduino? Jon > On Apr 1, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I wondered about this because I bought a box of cheap Chinese Nano clones a > year or so ago and I never installed any drivers to talk to them with my > laptop, upon which I run only Linux. I thought I had the weird serial port > because I ran into the watchdog timer issue that is associated with them. So > I looked into it. As near as I can tell, Linux has had "out of the box" > drivers for the CH340G serial port for many years. So, there is no need to > install any drivers to talk to your boards if you run Linux. It "just works". > > On 4/1/2019 5:22 AM, Jon “KF5TFJ” Noxon via BVARC wrote: >> Linux users: >> >> Install the appropriate version, however I do not really recommend Linux for >> the Arduino 101, because of difficulty installing the Chinese USB-Serial >> driver, which is needed. Again, disk space! >> >> STEP TWO >> >> The Arduino Nanos I will be supplying use a Chinese USB-SERIAL chip >> (CH340G). The manufacture’s official download site, unfortunalely is only >> available in Chinese, but I have a solution. Use Google Translate! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BVARC mailing list >> Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! >> Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every >> time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >> <http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org> >> Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! > Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every > time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected]
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