On 2012-05-22, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> John Nagle <na...@animats.com> writes:
>> If a device is registered as /dev/ttyUSBnn, one would hope that
>> the Linux USB insertion event handler, which assigns that name,
>> determined that the device was a serial port emulator. Unfortunately,
>> the USB standard device classes
>> (http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class) don't have "serial port
>> emulator" as a standardized device. So there's more variation in this
>> area than in keyboards, mice, or storage devices.
>
> Hmm, I've been using USB-to-serial adapters and so far they've worked
> just fine. I plug the USB end of adapter into a Ubuntu box, see
> /dev/ttyUSB* appear, plug the serial end into the external serial
> device, and just use pyserial like with an actual serial port. I didn't
> realize there were issues with this.
I've used probably a dozen different ones. I've read about some
people having odd problems with them, but I've never seen any of the
those problems. They've all "just worked" for me.
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