There must be something useful here…

I was trying to communicate with a serial device today and found that Linux is much more resourceful than M$oft products (Obviously). I plugged in my USB to serial adapter, and typed in dmesg and saw it there in the list, ready to use. But now, how to use it?

First determine where you USB device is located. You can ls /dev/ and look for it… Since there are 700+ items there, I’ll give you a hint: ttyUSB is what it should start with. Mine was /dev/ttyUSB0.

I found a tutorial of a little program called minicom. Minicom is a lightweight terminal client that is quiet cool in my opinion. Start minicom with the following:

minicom -s

This will put you in interactive configuration mode. Change your port information to what you discovered above and make sure to set the baud rate and other parameters. Now choose to save the config as dfl (default) and away you go.

Thanks again Linux for being awesome!

-Mike