Josh Hammond wrote: > Hello to everybody. > I have recently purchased a USB thermometer from a chinese ebay store. > The sensor has no brand whatsoever and just carries the "TEMPer" label. > > I plugged it to my debian unstable box (with a vanilla 2.6.24.4 kernel) > and it was detected as > > 4348:5523 WinChipHead USB->RS 232 adapter with Prolifec PL 2303 chipset > > I believe this means that it is, at least partly, accessible by a linux > system (although it seems to do some weird USB-serial emulation). > I am now trying to access the thermometer, and more specifically be able > to read the data it provides. > > I realize this is a very broad question, but could somebody point me in > the right direction to be able to read the temperature from command > line? > The only serial experience I have is connecting to a switch's console and > configuring it with putty/minicom. > > I pasted the outputs from syslog and lsusb but I dont' really see how > the latter relates to my problem. > Thanks to everyone that will respond, since now I feel quite lost. > usb 1-2.2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Does "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" work? -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
