On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:djg@pdp8.net">djg@pdp8.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:djg@pdp8.net">djg@pdp8.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>It looks like you did what I did to connect my directv box on a motherboard<br>with only one real serial port which I was using for lirc.<br><br>I assume you edited your directv_usb.pl to have $serport = "/dev/ttyUSB0";
<br>(I just put it on the command line with port /dev/ttyUSB0)<br><br>Also is your working serial port the same connector type so you can<br>plug its cable into your USB converter and verify it isn't a problem<br>with the new cable or box?
<br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, I set the $serport in directv_usb.pl to /dev/ttyUSB0. I did plug my working serial connector into my second old RCA receiver. I was able to control the old RCA receiver just fine.<br><br>After further investigation, I'm pretty certain the USB->serial converter hardware is not compatible with Fedora Core 5. The usbserial module recognizes the Moschip
<a href="http://moschip.com/html/download_drivers.html">MCS7703 </a>USB->serial converter and connects it to /dev/ttyUSB0. Whenever I try to use the device, I get a timeout error. The converter comes with a pre-compiled Linux driver, but the driver was written for an older kernel. (
2.6.11, I believe). I get an incompatible modle error whenever I try to insmod the manufacturer's driver. The manufacturer also provides the source for the driver. Again, the source code was written against the 2.6.11 kernel and will not compile against my
2.6.16 kernel.<br><br>