[nos-bbs] usb -> serial help..

[jerome schatten]

Recently I was forced to migrate to a computer that has no serial port
for use with jnos and thus lost my radio drop.

When I plug in the converter, it is immediately recognized by linux
and /var/log/messages says it found a driver for the device and it is
now attached to /dev/ttyUSB0. 

With the tnc in kiss mode, I simply tried to see if it would auto-set up
and work with the old tnc kiss settings that worked last time around.
Nothing -- some packets were detected in kiss mode with bad headers...
etc.

I did a hard reset on the KAM-XL to bring it out of kiss mode so I could
test to see if a terminal programme (minicom) could talk to the TNC in
normal (non-kiss) mode.

And that is where I am stuck... What port on the 232 end of the cable
should I set Minicom for?  I thought it would be something like ttyS0,
S1... etc. Nada...   Minicom comes up and says it's port is /dev/tty8. I
tried that and likewise nada. 

Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, but I figured I need to find
out if for sure if the converter is actually working first and then
worry about jnos.

Is there something else other than minicom that I should be using?

Any suggestions on how to proceed would be welcome.

Thanks,
jerome - ve7ass