Re: possiblity that usb<->serial converter works?

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:32:47PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> Hi Gareth. Thanks for the response.
> 
> On 17/05/02, Gareth Bowker (tgb@tgb.org.uk) wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:19:22PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > > I'd like to run gnokii, software that manages nokia mobile phones,
> > > through my lombard powerbook running woody.
> > > 
> > > The data cable for my mobile is the serial type.
> 
> > I have a GPS running through a PL-2303 serial<->USB adapter. It works
> > flawlessly. I just point to /dev/ttyUSB0 and it appears to the app as a
> > standard serial port, so should work fine with gnokii.
> 
> I don't have /dev/ttyUSB0 (only /dev/usbmouse). How do I setup
> /dev/ttyUSB0? I'm running kernel 2.4.14.

Having just completed a MAKEDEV man page rewrite, I can answer that. 
As root:

cd /dev
./MAKEDEV usb

-- 
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
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