<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 15, 2008 10:58 AM, Curt, WE7U <<a href="mailto:archer@eskimo.com">archer@eskimo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Earl Needham wrote:<br><br>> When I tried Ubuntu with these devices, I had to unplug the<br>> USB items (including my Sprint aircard), and THEN boot the<br>> machine. Once the machine was up and running, I had to plug in the
<br>> aircard, then plug in the dongle, and finally plug in the<br>> GPS. Anything else and the numbers were wrong and various software<br>> couldn't find the items.<br><br>There are ways in Linux to force the assignments for particular
<br>devices. I don't know the details though as I haven't tried to do<br>this yet. Look for "udev" info at <<a href="http://www.google.com/linux" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/linux</a>></blockquote>
<div><br>It seems like I tried (and failed) to help Earl with this problem, but udev will indeed help with many of these problems.<br><br>I prefer FTDI-based usb/rs232 adapters because they have a serial number (string really) to make this operation easy, and even have facilities to change that serial number.
<br></div></div><br>-Jason<br>kg4wsv