[BRLTTY] usb to serial problems

Daniel Dalton d.dalton at iinet.net.au
Mon Apr 28 07:47:44 EDT 2008


On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:46:30PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> daniel at debian-compaq:~$ sudo grep -n -i 'brltty' /var/log/syslog | tail
>> 992:Apr 26 17:35:56 debian-compaq brltty[4773]: serial write error 19: No
>> such device.
>
> That looks like the problem. Something is going wrong when BRLTTY attempts to
> write to the serial port.

Hi, OK, sorry about the delay.
Oh OK. Does that mean linux does not support my cable?

>
> To be absolutely sure it is writing to the correct device, can you try -d
> serial:/dev/ttyUSB1 on the command line?

I think I did that in Dave's reply, and it didn't work.
See the mail with the log.

>
> If, as I suspect, it is writing to the correct device, there may be a kernel
> issue.

If that is the case should I swap my cable?

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