On 08/07/2024 22:46, Lee wrote:
On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 8:51 PM Andy Smith wrote:
In my experience USB serial gadgets on Linux tend to just work or
will never work.
It worked this time!
Other than plugging it into a windows machine that had the proper
drivers first, I don't know what changed.
Some devices may advertise them as mass storage drives at first to
autorun windows drivers installer. I would not expect it from a cheap
serial port adapter though. See the usb-modeswitch package to change
exposed USB interface from command line.
Great! I had to add myself to the dialout group to be able to talk to
the device, but
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 38400
works.
systemd-logind may grant access to the currently active user. Search for
"uaccess" in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
<https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4288>
"Document the uaccess mechanism / dynamic device permissions"
<https://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/2012/05/23/linux-automatic-user-acl-management>
Tomasz Torcz. Linux automatic user ACL management
