I have a USB-to-Serial adapter, Belkin F5U109, that I need to use with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have found what appears to be a compatible driver, umct.4freebsd.gz (found. I'm trying to communicate with a serial to can-bus adapter in. Mount usb to serial adapter CANBUS and can-utils ubuntu? Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial adapter. That is the reason why people still sell USB-Serial adapter to those. Here’s how to enable USB-Serial port adapter in Ubuntu. Mypapit GNU/Linux Blog.

Though some might argue that Serial port are things in the past, it is still the most popular port for those who are into electronic DIY. Building electronic device with serial port interface is cheaper than buiding one that uses USB.

That is the reason why people still sell USB-Serial adapter to those electronic DIY enthusiast. Here’s how to enable USB-Serial port adapter in Ubuntu Linux (with credit to from ) First plug in the USB-Serial Port adaptor to one of your USB port.

Wait for a couple of second, then run “dmesg”. You should see these message at the end of dmesg output. Usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice After that, unplug the device and type “lsusb”. You will see a list of output similar to this. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03f0:4f11 Hewlett-Packard Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15d9:0a33 Plug in the USB-Serial Port converter back, and run “lsusb” again, and you shall see an additional line, like this. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03f0:4f11 Hewlett-Packard Bus 001 Device 002: ID 4348:5523 --- --- --- ( notice the additional line!) Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc.

Afilias Optical Mouse H3003 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15d9:0a33 Now we know the vendor id and the product id of the USB-Serial Port converter, this will enable us to load the linux kernel module “usbserial” to activate the device, like this: sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x4348 product=0x5523 Run “dmesg” again and you shall see lines similar like this: usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: generic converter detected usb 1-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic As you can see, the new serial port device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0. You can instruct Ubuntu to load this module automatically by include the line: “usbserial vendor=0x4348 product=0x5523” inside “/etc/modules” file. Bonus: What application benefits from usb-serial port adaptor? For starters, there are modems which uses RS-232 serial port.

Some home-made devices includes which also depends on the serial port. I use the adaptor to hook up my morse keyer in order to send morse code through the internet using. Vray For Sketchup 7 Rapidshare on this page. The site has to build such interface. You can see my home-made morse code oscillator here: Where can I get USB to Serial port converter? You can get it from your local computer stores or order it online! Hola MyPapit, I am trying to interface an Icom AIS receiver with my Ubuntu 12.04 controlled plotter. The plotter program is OpenCPN.

Your instructions are helpful and clear, but am still having problem. Apparently Ubuntu is recognizing the USB to RS232 converter. Using your suggested command lsusb, I see the device. I’m just not getting a data stream from the Icom. So I still don’t know if the problem is in the hardware or the software. Can you offer any suggestions? I am N7NST and still have active license but inactive for years now.