On Sun, 10 May 2020 17:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> Mr. Russell, > May I ask a side question here? > On a couple of other lists to which I belong, one of which involves the > development of the freedos project, there were questions about how a USB > to serial adapter manages the communications associated, by which a mean > port definitions that a serial port used to use. > If one is trying to access a device connected with a USB to serial > adapter, what port does USB use? > for example if the program would talk to a serial device on com 4, how > would you achieve the same goal via a USB to serial adapter? > thanks, > Kare Karen, I still have an external modem on my desktop which I access through a USB to serial converter, very, very occasionally. To set up the serial modem, I installed and run wvdial... $ sudo dnf -y install wvdial $ sudo wvdialconf /etc/create On my desktop, the modem is at /dev/ttyUSB0. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
