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

[Bob Tenty]

If your KAM-XL is connected to that USB Serial converter you should
set Minicom to ttyUSB0

The kernel driver for your converter simulates a serial device.

/dev/USB0 will be the serial port in linux to communicate with your tnc.

>From the menu (Ctrl-A Z) enter "O" and you get another menu
with other options  and choose "Serial port Setup" from there
you can change the serial device settings in Minicom.


73,

Bob VE3TOK


On 12-11-30 06:33 PM, jerome schatten wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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