On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:39, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know how I can tell my Arch system that I have a USB to > serial adapter connected to my machine? If you don't need any of the modem features provided in minicom, I would recommend trying picocom from AUR [0]. It provides a very simple interface to a serial console: $ picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0 [0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8088