Hello, I'm new to linux. Running Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

My question is this: I would like to find out what the address is to my usb device. I googled it first, and came up with a "dmesg" command, but maybe I'm looking for the wrong thing. I am looking for some address in the form of "tty---" but dmesg isn't giving me any address like that.

Could my usb device not be a tty- is it possible that it is in the form of something like sdb1? Cause that's what I initially thought because that's what dmesg gave me, but when I go to /dev I just am not finding any sdb files, and when I did a gnome search for sdb files, nothing came up.

This is for an evdo internet connection. I can connect with my KPPP dialer or wvdial, but only if I know where the location of my usb device is. The device is functional, because it is set up properly on my laptop.

Thanks,

Caleb

you may want to try lsusb rather than dmesg. I also recall using a graphical program called usbview, though i don't have a link for it, you could try googleing it. Or you could combine dmesg with grep like this dmesg|grep tty to just get entries that have tty in them, or change tty with usb. Look in /dev for /dev/ttyUSB entries perhaps as well.