Hi folks, I have a DEC VT520 in good working condition that I had working as dumb terminal with my x86 box, back when I had a working x86 box, over a year ago. There are HOWTOs and stuff aplenty, but no one appears to have documented how to get a dumb terminal connected up using only USB. I have the following hardware: 1) Blue & White G3 Power Macintosh 2) Silitek IBM USB HUB KEYBOARD on usb1:3.0 3) I/O Gear GUC232A USB-to-serial (9-pin male) adapter 4) 9-pin female to 25-pin male serial cable 5) 25-pin gender changer 6) 25-pin null modem 7) DEC VT520 dumb terminal The kernel can see the USB-to-serial adapter when I plug it into the keyboard: Mar 2 20:48:50 redwald kernel: hub.c: new USB device 01:06.0-1.3, assigned address 6 Mar 2 20:48:50 redwald kernel: usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x557/0x2008) is not claimed by any active driver. I load the usbserial module accordingly: # modprobe usbserial vendor=0x557 product=0x2008 But now I'm stuck. I can't use setserial or statserial on /dev/ttyUSB0, which I guess is where the terminal is supposed to show up. I can cat to and from /dev/ttyUSB0, but nothing happens. I would appreciate advice on where to go from here: diagnostics appreciated, and step-by-step instructions for doofuses like me are also quite welcome! Any further questions about my setup, just ask. -- G. Branden Robinson | There's no trick to being a Debian GNU/Linux | humorist when you have the whole branden@debian.org | government working for you. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Will Rogers
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