Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:02:42 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: The Longs <justin_donna@bigpond.com> Subject: Re: usb serial convertor Message-ID: <200710011002.42899.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <20071001014755.PUFJ2588.oaamta07ps.mx.bigpond.com@myprecious> References: <20071001014755.PUFJ2588.oaamta07ps.mx.bigpond.com@myprecious>
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On Monday 01 October 2007 03:41, The Longs wrote: > I'm trying to get Gregs temperature controlled fridge to work, but the > catch is that the laptop I'm using doesn't have a serial port. I'm hoping I > can use a usb to serial convertor and tell the program to look at the usb > port for the temperature probes, but I am lost as to how to do this. A supported USB-to-serial converter will appear as a serial port. For example I use a Bafo BF-810 converter which is driven by uplcom(4), and in turn ucom(4) which presents /dev/cuaU0 and /dev/ttyU0. Jonathan
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