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I have a very specific question. On my laptop with only USB and no RS232, I can see which bus & port I’m on but I haven’t been able to find the command that tells me which tty channel it is mapped to. Even my Linux teacher doesn’t know it.

Can you help me?

David

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  • dmesg | grep tty ?
    – Kate
    Jan 26, 2020 at 16:58

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  ls -l /dev/serial/by_path

will show you sym-links that you can use to connect to a serial port if you know which usb socket it is plugged into, or can interptret to determin the usb path to your serial port.

eg: 

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 27 10:08 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-port0 -> ../../ttyUSB0
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  • Equally /dev/serial/by-id may help if there's a chance for USB dongles to be plugged into different physical sockets.
    – Stephen Harris
    Jan 26, 2020 at 22:29
  • It may, but many brands of dongles don't ship with unique IDs (FTDI being the notable exception)
    – Jasen
    Jan 27, 2020 at 2:34
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My Linux teacher pointed me in the direction of minicom. Now I just need to understand how to interface with minicom. YouTube here I come.

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