Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-09 Thread deloptes
Merciadri Luca wrote: Because if I can know it by theory, it avoids me `practice.' :) Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0,

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 iul 10, 14:06:51, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device, or is it one in a

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Because if I can know it by theory, it avoids me `practice.' :) Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc.,

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the system. And which addresses would they get, if they were not using

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device, or is it one in a

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Celejar wrote: Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the system.

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Celejar wrote: Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device,

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:28:55 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Modems (gsm/umts/dial-up) devices and printers do it that way (in fact, anything that emulates the serial port). Thanks, but I should have mentioned that I'm here speaking about non-block devices (such as

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Celejar wrote: Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, which contain chips meant to provide a serial /

USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-04 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first plugged device, or is it one in a specific port? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:06:51 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi, Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the