Then why does dmesg say that the driver is only for testing and one off purposes?
On 22 December 2017 at 16:17, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
