[opensuse] USB serial port not found
I have a system running open-suse 11.4. It has no serial ports but I have a USB serial port. For some reason it does not show this port. Does anyone know how to check what is wrong or can point me to how to discover or configure it to work. Bob R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 09:09:38 AM Robert Rawlinson wrote:
I have a system running open-suse 11.4. It has no serial ports but I have a USB serial port. For some reason it does not show this port. Does anyone know how to check what is wrong or can point me to how to discover or configure it to work. Bob R
Hi Bob, USB is well developed system in Linux, and many things happen without user interaction. Try to connect some device to USB and it should appear, just like that, automagically :) Besides, we are missing desktop information as KDE and GNOME have different ways to tell you that device is present, and other desktops may, or may not have own device notifiers. Desktop version [1] is also helpful, as it helps to search http://bugzilla.novell.com and the web. It would be useful to know what is make and model of device in question, and what lsusb tells about it. It helps looking around the web and in a bugzilla. If connected device does not appear in desktop notifications, you can check is it recognized with: lsusb [1] KDE and GNOME can have multiple versions in openSUSE 11.4, ie. installed KDE is 4.6.0 and available in KDE repos is 4.6.5, which has a bit different layout and some bugs are already resolved. GNOME can be even more differences, as available, in GNOME repos, is GNOME3, which is very different from GNOME2. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 07/28/2011 11:35 AM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 09:09:38 AM Robert Rawlinson wrote:
I have a system running open-suse 11.4. It has no serial ports but I have a USB serial port. For some reason it does not show this port. Does anyone know how to check what is wrong or can point me to how to discover or configure it to work. Bob R Hi Bob,
USB is well developed system in Linux, and many things happen without user interaction. Try to connect some device to USB and it should appear, just like that, automagically :)
Besides, we are missing desktop information as KDE and GNOME have different ways to tell you that device is present, and other desktops may, or may not have own device notifiers.
Desktop version [1] is also helpful, as it helps to search http://bugzilla.novell.com and the web.
It would be useful to know what is make and model of device in question, and what lsusb tells about it. It helps looking around the web and in a bugzilla.
If connected device does not appear in desktop notifications, you can check is it recognized with: lsusb
[1] KDE and GNOME can have multiple versions in openSUSE 11.4, ie. installed KDE is 4.6.0 and available in KDE repos is 4.6.5, which has a bit different layout and some bugs are already resolved. GNOME can be even more differences, as available, in GNOME repos, is GNOME3, which is very different from GNOME2.
I have done some more checking and it seems the USB is not working. I tried memory sticks and external hd drive. I looked at the hardware information and perhaps a clue. In the USB information it has an entry for usb driver and it says no. Thanks for your help. Bob R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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