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[Roger Stenning <rogerstenning@xxxxxxxxx>]

Best to note how to get yourself added to the dialout group on your machine
too, I think.

If you find yourself getting an "Access denied" error when trying to access
"/dev/ttyUSB0", that's when you need to add yourself to the dialout list on
your machine.

Open up a terminal window (ctrl + alt + t), and enter the following:

     sudo groupadd dialout
Hit return, then enter:
     sudo gpasswd -a username dialout
hit return.

You should now be able to access the USB and/or com ports.

Hope the above helps :)

73,

Roger
de
G1LIW


where username is the name of the user.

On 30 June 2015 at 02:29, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * On 2015 29 Jun 17:28 -0500, Lahra Svare wrote:
> > Have any of you figured out how to use com ports? I use a USB to
> > serial convertor and have been trying to figure out how to make use of
> > software that expects com ports...to no avail. I'm a newbie....am I
> > missing something?
>
> USB to serial converters show up as /dev/ttyUSB0 and count upward as
> more are added.  Linux software should not have any issue accessing them
> so long as your user name is in the 'dialout' group.
>
> 73, Nate
>
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