USB to serial converter

RANJAN infibit at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 21:02:47 CEST 2009


To do the serial comm  I tried to install pyserial in the free runner.I got
error saying "No module distutils.core"Any way I can solve this?

Or it will be solved right away using picocom or ser2net?

Sriranjan

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks.Will try and get back.
> Regards
> Sriranjanst
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Visti Andresen <talpa at talpa.dk> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:03:47 +0530
>> RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > YOu mean this thing will work on any DISTRO?Also ser2net and picocom
>> > are to be loaded into a PC which openmoko wants to talk to?Right.
>>
>> It should work on any distro that has a driver module for your
>> USB->serial converter.
>> And since the distros more or less shares the kernel source they either
>> all have support for your specific hardware or none has.
>>
>> The "Sure. It should work just like on your PC." I believe was to be
>> interpreted as:
>> If you know how to access the USB->serial converter serial port on your
>> desktop PC, then the procedure/programming required on a Freerunner is
>> the same.
>>
>> NOTE: On the Freerunner you probably have to switch the USB controller
>> into "host" mode first (see the wiki)
>>
>> One of the brilliant things about running Linux on a phone is the fact
>> that your phone is then behaving just like your PC (running Linux)
>>
>> >
>> > Sriranjan
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
>> > <timo.lindfors at iki.fi
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> writes:
>> > > > I want to make free runner communicate with an embedded device
>> > > > and for
>> > > that
>> > > > I need a serial port.Can I use a USB to serial converter on the
>> > > > free
>> > > runner
>> > > > and how shall I do the serial communication?(software and
>> > > > hardware?)
>> > >
>> > > Sure. It should work just like on your PC.
>> > >
>> > > You load the usb-serial module and a /dev/ttyUSB* device will
>> > > appear. Then you can use e.g. ser2net or picocom to talk to it.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>>
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