On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:53:41 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: [...] > The only hardware browser I've been able to find is called lshw, > with lshw-gui; I fired it up on this machine, read through everything > line by line, and found the word "serial" only in contexts where it > meant "serial number." > > Other than the difference between serial and USB, everything I > know about hardware would go comfortably in a gnat's eye. What am I > looking for? > > Is it possible for a machine with only one physical serial > connector to have multiple serial ports? I thought a port was a physical > thing, like an ethernet port, a telephone line port, or a VGA connector > -- a male or female object of a certain shape and number of connectors, > like a power cord/plug. Just out of excessive optimism, I dug out the old adapter for using serial cables with a USB port; plugged first the etrex cable and then the rino one, through it, into a USB port. Neither became visible to the software, with or without the transfer option in the Preferences set to ignore Garmin devices on serial ports. <sigh> -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
