6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
2:01 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Phaeton phaeton@neo.rr.com wrote:
I assumed it was a name the system issued a USB to serial port device and not reflected of the driver name.
On Linux, udev usually chooses the device name. On OS X, the driver tells the OS what name it wants.
FTDI usually shows up as /dev/cu.usbserial-xxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxxx is either the device's serial number or, for unserialized devices, a location string that depends on which USB port your device is connected to.
The Prolific PL2303 driver enumerates devices at /dev/cu.usbserial.
I think /dev/cu.PL2303-XXXXXXXX is associated with the open source PL2303 project.
Tom KD7LXL