Monday, June 4, 2007

USB-UIRT on Ubuntu

Installing an USB-UIRT device on an Ubuntu system is as simple as explained on the community web site. Automating this would require to automate the dmesg lookup part (or to force the user to use a given USB port?).

However, even though it seems that simple on Ubuntu, it seems that the device is not properly recognised so far. I have been able to make it work on Windows using IRCommand2, but could probably have been using this solution, i.e. the lrnhelper and uutx applications.

However, it is possible to do this on Linux, misterhouse does it. Pay specific attention to the note about using "udev" to fix the name of the USB-UIRT device in the OS to avoid dynamic allocation and the problem described above.

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