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From: k.sahici on 29 Jan 2008 07:04 Hi, I can be counted as a newbie in Linux environment. I have a usb to RS232 adapter and its' vendor says that it has Windows drivers but not Linux/Unix. For that reason, I cannot find a suitable driver to install. My question is, Is there a way for me to use this adapter on Red Hat Linux(or another distribution) or is the answer like this - > "You cannot use any device(especially plug&play devices) without a driver on Linux because there is no built-in driver support in Linux Operating Systems, unlike MS Windows". Thanks for any help, you can see that my problem is not closely related to a specific device, rather it's about basic concepts like driver need in Linux.
From: Wolfgang Draxinger on 29 Jan 2008 07:46 k.sahici wrote: > Hi, > > I can be counted as a newbie in Linux environment. > I have a usb to RS232 adapter and its' vendor says that it has > Windows drivers but not Linux/Unix. > For that reason, I cannot find a suitable driver to install. Well, "installing" a driver like it's done under Windows with a "setup.exe" is seldomly needed and done under Linux, as most drivers sooner or later find their way into the main kernel tree. This means: After installing one of the popular distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat, etc.) you already got 99% of all avaliable drivers for Linux installed. The odds are high, that among them is also a driver for your USB<->RS232 convertor. Why not give it a try: Plug it into your box, running Linux and look if it appears as a device (check with dmesg and/or in /var/log/messages). Normally USB<->RS232 appear as /dev/ttyUSB... > Thanks for any help, you can see that my problem is not closely > related to a specific device, rather it's about basic concepts > like driver need in Linux. Any device can be used with Linux, if there's a driver. If there's not a driver yet, you can start developing one. The biggest obstacle however is, getting the required information from the hardware manufator. Then you've to reverse engineer the device. However if the manufactor gives you all the information you need and want, writing a driver is quite easy. Wolfgang Draxinger -- E-Mail address works, Jabber: hexarith(a)jabber.org, ICQ: 134682867
From: B.Eckstein on 29 Jan 2008 08:45
k.sahici schrub im Jahre 29.01.2008 13:04: > Hi, > > I can be counted as a newbie in Linux environment. > I have a usb to RS232 adapter and its' vendor says that it has Windows > drivers but not Linux/Unix. > For that reason, I cannot find a suitable driver to install. Plug your adapter into your USB-Port and call "dmesg". It will tell you something about "/dev/ttyUSB0" which is the serial Port assigned to your adapter. HTH |