<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Rout</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@rout.co.nz">nick@rout.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tim Litwiller wrote:<br>> I need help from someone who has done this before.<br>><br>> This might be more a linux question than mythtv question but it<br>> relates to my mythtv setup<br>><br>> I am running fedora core 6
<br>> with 2 directv D12-300 STB's<br>><br>> I followed the wiki and got usb to serial adapter cord and nul modem<br>> cables that are the same chip as the recommended and I don't get the<br>> /dev/ttyUSB* device when I plug them in.
<br>><br>> So I enabled the 1 serial port on the mother board - and tried that,<br>> but I am guessing that I need to specify somewhere the speed to<br>> communicate thru the port.<br>><br>> Is anyone here willing to step me thru diagnosing why the usb->
<br>> serial(rs232) ports to initialize correctly? and the see if we can get<br>> the directv.pl script to make the STB respond?<br><br>I guess the first step is to run dmesg, then plug the device in and run<br>dmesg again to see if the kernel is recognising them.
<br><br>lsmod and lsusb are also your friends.<br><br></blockquote></div><br># lsusb<br>Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000<br>Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000<br>Bus 001 Device 005: ID 4348:5523<br>Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
<br>Bus 001 Device 004: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp.<br>Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000<br>Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c03e Logitech, Inc. Premium Optical Wheel Mouse<br>Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc7:0004 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc. X10 Receiver
<br><br><br><br>this doesn't come in /var/log/dmesg but it come up in /var/log/messages when I plug the usb cord in<br>
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Jul 21 22:00:33 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5<br>
Jul 21 22:00:33 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice<br><br>