On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:45:00 -0500, vitamin wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> [btth@localhost dosdevices]$ ln -s /dev/ttyS0 com1 > > Why the ttyS0? Is it really serial port? If it's USB->Serial, then it > should be ttyUSB0. Yes, it really is, precisely because of these cables; my experience with the little conversion gadgets has not been encouraging. Question : when I make com2, com3, etc., do I still want ttyS0? Or should they be ttyS1, etc.? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
