These drivers are decades old and standard heavily used and tested and common to all distributions. If a /dev/ttyUSB* exists at all, then udev did everything and you're done thinking about drivers.
If you have more than one usb adapter from different manufacturers, and they're both unreliable, then it's not the adapters either. The dlplus application software is solid. Both teeny and ts-dos are solid. It's the serial cable or the m100, and the serial cable is easy to eliminate with a multimeter. On Dec 22, 2017 3:28 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:44 AM Peter Vollan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> So far, "dmesg" has always said that I am using the generic driver, >> "only for testing and one off purposes". And I have already gone into >> Synaptic and downloaded everything that looked promising. >> > > Kernel drivers don’t come from synaptic. They come with the kernel. Unless > you have a custom kernel I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t have been compiled > with prolific and Ftdi drivers which are the common converters. > > But if they were missing (on my Mint system prolific was there from > install at least) you would need to build or reinstall a kernel. > > — John. >
