On Monday 28 April 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using FTDI's usb-serial converters for a few years now with > great success.
I use one of those gadgets. Wonderful devices, they always JustWorked(tm) > I have not used minicom in a month or so and now it's broken > on all(3) of the laptops where it use to work. I have googled > for a while today, with not luck on this issue. > > It the /etc/minicom/minirc.dfl used to use > /dev/ttyUSB0 on several machines. > > Now I get: nu such file or directory. > > CD into /dev and sure enough ttyUSB0 nore ttyUSB* is not there > so this is at least a udev issue? No, it's done by the driver and udev just goes along with what the driver creates. My specs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ uname -a Linux nazgul 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 7 18:40:36 SAST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Plugging in the device gives me this from dmesg: Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110152.957575] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.078246] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.124828] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.124855] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.124903] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.124906] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.136853] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial Device Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.136903] ftdi_sio 3-1:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.136939] drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: Detected FT232RL Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.137035] usb 3-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.137050] usbcore: registered new interface driver ftdi_sio Apr 28 23:44:04 nazgul [110153.137053] drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: v1.4.3:USB FTDI Serial Converters Driver and I get this device node created automagically: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ ls -al /dev/ttyU* crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 2008-04-28 23:44 /dev/ttyUSB0 There are no specific udev rules as shown by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ grep -ir usb * | grep tty [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ grep -ir tty * | grep usb [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ grep -ir ftdi * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ grep -ir 188 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/udev/rules.d $ > Also, I went to rebuild the gentoo-2.6.24-r4 kernel and could not > locate the driver item for ftdi (maybe it has been combined into > a mega driver or such? It's where it's always been :-) Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial Converter support -> USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL) I had no trouble finding it when I built this kernel so I assume it didn't move. The driver's dependencies: Symbol: USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO [=m] Prompt: USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL) Defined at drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig:167 Depends on: USB_SUPPORT && USB!=n && USB_SERIAL && EXPERIMENTAL Maybe you forgot to configure EXPERIMENTAL=Y ? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
