USB Serial Port

[Clark Martin]

On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Mike Dwiggins wrote:

> This may be easy for some but, all of my Linux experience has been on 
> servers and I am just now trying to move into the desktop side.
> 
> I am trying to use a USB to Serial adapter by Belkin for a needed 
> application at work.  I plan on using PuTTy as my comm plaform but, I 
> cannot figure out what port id the device is being given or if I need to 
> configure it in some manner.
> 
> Anyone know a simple way or the correct place to look for info about 
> this on the Web?

Look in /dev for something like tty.usb...

look before and after you plug it in to be sure.