Testing a synthesizer

[james collins]

Assuming I don't need a driver for my USB to serial adaptor cable, are  
you saying the command you gave me

ls /dev/cu.*

Will give me a list of devices, and I should be able to find the name  
of my cable from the list? And then I could run the command

echo "text" > /dev/ttyUSB0

Substituting ttyUSB0 with the name of my cable? I am currently trying  
to figure out how to login as root user, so I can run the echo command  
to test my synthesizer. Thanks for the help so far, btw when my USB to  
serial cable is plugged in, I can go to the apple menu then more info  
and under USB there is a lot of info, like it says:

USB-Serial Controller
It also mentions the name of a driver and it also has pci device Id:  
0x2831

I don't know if that means anything, or not?

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net> wrote:

> Well, all I can tell you is that I have never had a usb-serial cable  
> that did not require a driver and I've had two of them. Certainly  
> one may have come out that does not require a driver or an update  
> might have allowed usb-serial without a driver. But the information  
> in my last post still holds true; the device names will probably not  
> be the same as in linux.
>
> -- 
> Cheryl
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> and the meditation of my heart,
> be acceptable in thy sight,
> O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."
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