USB to Serial PL2303

Hi,

Does anyone know where to get drivers for PL2303 based USB to Serial adapters for the Linux version of Aspire One?
I've tried several adapters, but they are not recognized.

Best regards
Jeppedal

 

The problem with Google is knowing what words to include in your query. That, and people just not using it, of course.

First hit Serialio - Products - USB RS-232 Adaptor

You don't say what adaptors you've tried, but for this PL2303 based one, anyway, it's built-in to the kernel since 2.4. Linpus is 2.6.something.

If you're having problems, perhaps it's the device you're plugging into the adaptor? I guess you might need drivers for that.

Ephraim Tutt takes on the cases others ignore.

 

Plug it in, then open a terminal and type in "dmesg". It should say connected to /dev/ttyUSB or something

 

I can't get my usb to serial to work either.

Here is my lsusb output:

And here is the dmesg output:

Thanks for any help

-wty

 

Does anyone know what the next step is? I have exactly the same usb/serial adapter, the output of the above commands is exactly the same. What is the incantation to get this device to show up as /dev/ttyUSB?

Once I can use this as a serial terminal for configuring switches I can throw away my old Toshiba Portege laptop 8) as I will have everything I need working on the device. 8)

 

Am getting exactly the same results as wetwilly , grateful if anyone can help ..

 

This is dicussed here:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2646