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Re: [LUG] Adventures with USB-serial converter

 

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:05 +0100, Tony Sumner wrote:
> I have set up a PC to sit in a cupboard monitoring water temperature.
> There is a little pc board that takes the measurement and feeds it to
> the serial port. I had a laptop with a serial port and this worked ok
> until the laptop broke and the replacement doesn't have a serial port.
> I got a USB-serial converter (with the Prolific chip) and with the
> usbserial module (thanks Robin) I can connect the device. All I had to
> do was change the fopen() to open /dev/ttyUSB0. 

use screen:
$ screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200


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