[svlug] RS232->USB dongle?

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:18:15 -0700
conover at rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:

> Do you know of any way they can be made to boot up as the same
> device in /dev/usb/* so I don't have to piddle with dmesg and then
> set the port in the RS232 programs?

keeping in mind that they may *NOT* behave *exactly* as rs232. To be
sure[1] to give them a constant name you'll have to dig into udev.

I can't add any detail since I never dug into it but that should be
the place where to look at... at least if you want to do it the
kosher way. I bet you can come up with a list of other awful tricks to
shuffle usb devices.

Try to look into /etc/hotplug* and dbus too.

[1] for a certain large value of sure but not including most of the
things you could see on Star Trek

[*] for list admin... I may guess the reason but quite too often my
emails are blocked by:

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server: svlug at lists.svlug.org; Failed; 5.1.2 (bad destination system
address)

    Remote MTA svlug.org: network error


 - SMTP protocol diagnostic: 554 SMTP service not available

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