[clug] USB to RS232 DB9 Adapter

[Alastair D'Silva]

Pretty much all this information is covered in the first page of results from:
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+use+usb+serial+under+ubuntu

There are also a few videos in the results which will probably be useful.



On 6 August 2019 11:26:37 pm AEST, Steve Walsh via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>On 6/8/19 11:20 pm, Bryan Kilgallin via linux wrote:
>> I tried minicom, which gave this error.
>>
>> {
>> minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: Permission denied
>> } 
>
>
>I'm going to guess that if you ran something like "ls /dev/ttyUSB0",
>you 
>would get information that help you further.
>
>$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
>crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Aug  6 23:22 /dev/ttyUSB0
>
>that would indicate that you either need to be root, or a member of the
>
>dialout group to access that device.
>
>So you can either add yourself to the dialout group, or run the command
>
>with 'sudo' to temporarily elevate your privileges while you use it.
>
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