[arch-general] Connection through USB to TTL Serial Cable

[Marshall Neill]

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/UUCP-HOWTO-4.html
http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/usersguide/linux_uguucp.html

Maybe those 2 links will help









On 05/20/2015 08:15 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote:
> On 05/20/2015 11:55 AM, Csányi Pál wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a
>> FTDI TTL-232RG-VREG3V3-WE
>> USB to TTL Serial Cable.
>>
>> On my Arch linux I want to setup a connection through this cable.
>>
>> How can I achieve this goal?
>>
>> The output of the 'lsusb' command is:
>> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices
>> International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
>>
>> I'm trying to follow steps described here:
>> http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard/TTL
>>
>> but I have more difficulties.
>>
>> 1. I can't find to install the 'cu' utility neither on Arch linux
>> repository nor in AUR.
>> 2. There is no '/dev/ttyUSB0' on my system here.
>>
>> So eg.
>> screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
>>
>> doesn't work here:
>> Cannot exec '/dev/ttyUSB0': No such file or directory
>>
>> I can't find any advices on Arch Wiki.
>>
>> Any advices will be appreciated!
> I have used a similar adapter on my system.
>
> I used picocom (I think) to connect to the serial port.  I also had to
> add myself to the uucp group because /dev/ttyUSB0 was owned by group
> uucp.
>
> --Kyle
>