I've got this lead, no idea where it came from, but it's got USB on one end, and 9 pin serial at the other end.
My mate Mr. Google and I have been having long chats on how to get this up and running, and this is what I have done so far... 1. Ensure the usbserial module is up and running. I've also installed safe_serial, just in case. I know ubserial is working as my garmin gps uses it quite happily. lsmod | grep serial safe_serial 8844 0 usbserial 29928 2 safe_serial,garmin_gps 2. Created loads of devices. Apparently, these are the correct device numbers. mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 c 188 1 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB2 c 188 2 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB3 c 188 3 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB4 c 188 4 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB5 c 188 5 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB6 c 188 6 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB7 c 188 7 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB8 c 188 8 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB9 c 188 9 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB10 c 188 10 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB11 c 188 11 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB12 c 188 12 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB13 c 188 13 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB14 c 188 14 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB15 c 188 15 3. Plugged the serial console port of my testbed into the port and attempted to access it on /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 ( with and without null modem ). gtkterm Control signals read: Invalid argument I've tried this on a few different hosts, none with any success. Could it be the cable or is Mr. G leading me astray? Cheers, Steve
