[Linux-ham] /dev ports for USB serial adapter

[Brian McCullough]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:42:04PM -0500, Tadd Torborg wrote:
> do they always have the S0, like ttyS0?  Or can there be other names, like TTYB0 or something?  I’m just trying to figure out a way to script this so any time somebody plugs in any USB to serial adapter that I can discover it and assign it correctly in the packet node software.

In this case, Tadd, "S" stands for Serial, so yes, it will _always_ be
ttyS#.  There are a variety of other ttys and ptys, describing other
facilities in the Unix model, like the ttyUSB# already mentioned.


Brian