Does anyone know what name Slackware gives to a USB serial device (its rs232 to usb lead)?

Most distros seem to give it '/dev/ttyUSB0' or similar, but in my /dev/tty dir its just a lot generic tty names

Slack does detect the device:

thanks for your help,

Ed

Are you running udev? Open a console window and enter 'ps -A | grep udevd'. If not, you can enter 'chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev' then '/etc/rc.d/./rc.udev start'.

Plug in a USB device and see if it's detected. If it is, enter 'dmesg' in a console window and hit the 'End' key. You'll see all kinds of info about the USB device you've just plugged in. It should be referred to as sda1, meaning it's using the /dev/sda1 file. The next USB device you plug in should be /dev/sdb1, etc.

This probably isn't the way to do it, but I create directories under /mnt/ for each USB port- usb1, usb2, etc. I then add lines to /etc/fstab for each port as below:

I figure I'll never use more USB devices than I have ports. Using the above method I always know where every USB device is mounted.

that would be for usb storage, but installing statserial and running statserial /dev/ttyUSBX to see if it recognizes a serial device there

Googling found some interesting information:

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=921409
http://tiagovaz.wordpress.com/2008/0...-linux-kernel/
http://blog.crox.net/archives/34-Usi...ver-ch341.html

ah thanks michaelk,

the kernel does indeed have a HL-341 driver (which i didnt have built). Hopefully just adding the statement which the 3rd link specificies will solve it.

Be sure to post back if it works.

http://blog.crox.net/archives/34-Usi...ver-ch341.html

following the instructions in this link, and a recompile. I can now access the serial device.

Note this now not necessary from 2.6.26.

thanks again.

Well done.