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Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually
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At 01:53 PM 10/6/2006, Karl Denninger wrote:

>Now, where the problem comes in is that THIS line doesn't reference an
>attached port.  That sucks, but might not be hard to fix:
>

If there is just one USB *serial* device, it will always be 
/dev/ttyU0. It doesnt matter if you have 1 or 3 other USB devices 
(ugen0, uhid0, uhid1)

>ucom0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00, addr 2
>
>So.... is there any way to discover what port a UCOM device is attached to?
>If so, bingo - you've got it.

You dont need to... It will always be ttyU0 in the above case if you 
just have one *serial* usb device.

         ---Mike