[Lancaster] USB to Serial adaptor under Ubuntu

[David Jenkinson]

Ken Hough wrote:
> This adaptor is automatically recognised and configured under SuSE
> Linux, but not under Ubuntu v7.04. Under SuSE, the relevant kernel
> modules 'ftdi_sio' and 'usbserial' are loaded and /dev/ttyUSB0 is created.
>   

I don't know much about Ubuntu, but in Slackware I'd try to manually 
load the modules, using modprobe or depmod. Then if it worked I'd add 
the relevent modules somewhere in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules I should expect, 
unless you only want them to be loaded as and when you needed them. It 
becomes a real pain if you have to make some new udev rules.

This is probably not much use, as Ubuntu is supposed to take care of 
everything like this for you. Maybe there is a package available which 
sets this up for you? Do some modules come as seperate packages, or are 
you left to configure the bits of the kernel that aren't in regular use 
yourself?

If it was a module I was using often, I'd compile it into my kernel. 
Pretty much the only modules I use are proprietry such as Nvidias, and oss.

Have a look in the docs that came with the kernel source, as they can 
give you a bit more info on the options you can supply some modules when 
loading them.