Re: [casper] ROACH2: Cannot communicate over USB

2013-05-20 Thread Nimish Sane
We had problems even after installing the rule and still continue to have, though we do not need to use RedHat to talk to Roaches now. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:29 PM, John Ford wrote: > > Hi Ryan, > > > > What machine you are using? FWIW, we had hard time time connecting from > > RedHat, it jus

Re: [casper] ROACH2: Cannot communicate over USB

2013-05-20 Thread John Ford
> Hi Ryan, > > What machine you are using? FWIW, we had hard time time connecting from > RedHat, it just worked smoothly with Windows and Ubuntu. This reminded me that I that our sysadmin installed a udev rule for this in my redhat 6 laptop: Yes, Master<1000> more /etc/udev/rules.d/99-ftdi.rules

Re: [casper] ROACH2: Cannot communicate over USB

2013-05-20 Thread Nimish Sane
Hi Ryan, What machine you are using? FWIW, we had hard time time connecting from RedHat, it just worked smoothly with Windows and Ubuntu. Thanks, Nimish On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David MacMahon wrote: > Hi, Ryan, > > Just for something else to try, this is the exact command that I use:

Re: [casper] ROACH2: Cannot communicate over USB

2013-05-20 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Ryan, Just for something else to try, this is the exact command that I use: screen /dev/ttyUSB2 115200 When finished, I use "k" to close the screen session ( is the screen command character, which defaults to CTRL-A but I remap to CTRL-Z in my .screenrc file). Have you tried a "known good

Re: [casper] ROACH2: Cannot communicate over USB

2013-05-20 Thread Ryan Monroe
Hey David, We noticed the dialout group thing, and have tested it with me being both root (via sudo minicom USBTTY2) and dialout. Thanks! --Ryan Monroe 626.773.0805 On 05/20/2013 11:46 AM, David MacMahon wrote: Hi, Ryan, Everything seems OK. Were you root or a member of the dialout group

Re: [casper] ROACH2: Cannot communicate over USB

2013-05-20 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Ryan, Everything seems OK. Were you root or a member of the dialout group when you tried connecting? I use screen instead of minicom, so I can't offer any extra ideas regarding minicom itself. FWIW, /dev/ttyUSB2 is the one that usually works for me. Dave On May 20, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Ry