[arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

[Marq Schneider]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:39, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can tell my Arch system that I have a USB to
> serial adapter connected to my machine?

If you don't need any of the modem features provided in minicom, I
would recommend trying picocom from AUR [0].  It provides a very
simple interface to a serial console:
$ picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyUSB0

[0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8088