[ale] This _should_ be simple...

[Thompson Freeman]

I've grazed the linuxdoc HOWTOs, and browsed around, so I _should_ have
either found the trick or at least a clue. The background...

Yesterday I was in CompUSA, and rather on impulse purchased an APC
Back-UPS CS 350 for my machine. The ups has an USB port, cable included,
and I've got 3 appropriate ports on the computer - so hardware shouldn't
be an issue. The interesting part is that the APS software (downloaded
from their web site), wants to know what serial port to talk to in order
to talk to the ups. I imagine that I perform a symbolic link somewhere in
/dev to get this serial device, and then configure the software, but I'm
clueless about how to declair a serial port through the USB devices.

I'm running RH7.1, and have not automated setting up the USB system (I'm
still insmod'ing things when I bootup.)

Anybody have a clue I might borrow for a few minutes?

Thanks in advance.

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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
                    Lee Iacocca
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Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net


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