On Sun, 10 May 2020 17:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Mr. Russell, May I ask a side question here? On a couple of other lists to which I belong, one of which involves the development of the freedos project, there were questions about how a USB to serial adapter manages the communications associated, by which a mean port definitions that a serial port used to use. If one is trying to access a device connected with a USB to serial adapter, what port does USB use? for example if the program would talk to a serial device on com 4, how would you achieve the same goal via a USB to serial adapter? thanks, Kare
Karen, I still have an external modem on my desktop which I access through a USB to serial converter, very, very occasionally. To set up the serial modem, I installed and run wvdial... $ sudo dnf -y install wvdial $ sudo wvdialconf /etc/create On my desktop, the modem is at /dev/ttyUSB0. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson