Re: usb serial adapter driver

k.sahici wrote:

Hi,

I can be counted as a newbie in Linux environment.
I have a usb to RS232 adapter and its' vendor says that it has
Windows drivers but not Linux/Unix.
For that reason, I cannot find a suitable driver to install.

Well, "installing" a driver like it's done under Windows with
a "setup.exe" is seldomly needed and done under Linux, as most
drivers sooner or later find their way into the main kernel
tree.

This means: After installing one of the popular distributions
(Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat, etc.) you already got 99% of all
avaliable drivers for Linux installed. The odds are high, that
among them is also a driver for your USB<->RS232 convertor.

Why not give it a try: Plug it into your box, running Linux and
look if it appears as a device (check with dmesg and/or
in /var/log/messages). Normally USB<->RS232 appear
as /dev/ttyUSB...

Thanks for any help, you can see that my problem is not closely
related to a specific device, rather it's about basic concepts
like driver need in Linux.

Any device can be used with Linux, if there's a driver. If
there's not a driver yet, you can start developing one. The
biggest obstacle however is, getting the required information
from the hardware manufator. Then you've to reverse engineer the
device. However if the manufactor gives you all the information
you need and want, writing a driver is quite easy.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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