[clug] USB to RS232 DB9 Adapter

Alex Ferrara alex at receptiveit.com.au
Tue Aug 6 12:58:57 UTC 2019


> On 6 Aug 2019, at 10:57 pm, Bryan Kilgallin <kilgallin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex:
> 
>> Check the output from dmesg after plugging in the USB adapter for some hints if a driver has claimed the device.
> 
> In a Terminal window, I entered this.
> 
> {
> dmesg | grep tty
> }
> 
> Reporting thus.
> 
> {
> [    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
> [    0.749216] tty tty15: hash matches
> [   31.900218] usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> }
> -- 
> members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/

Looks like there is already a kernel module that supports that hardware. The device will be /dev/ttyUSB0.

Good news.


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