{"id":2368,"date":"2016-08-03T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:01:24","slug":"using-putty-with-usb-serial-ports-on-fedoraubuntulinuxetc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Using puTTY with usb serial ports on Fedora\/Ubuntu\/Linux\/etc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Serial ports are a thing of yesteryear, but never seem to go away. If you have a USB adapter that exposes serial ports to your favorite Linux branch, knowing how to get to them isn&#8217;t intuitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>puTTY is a great terminal emulator, and you can connect to whichever port is exposed using the following format:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo putty \/dev\/ttyUSB0 -serial -sercfg 115200,8,n,1,N<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If it&#8217;s on a different port, use&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\/dev\/ttyUSB1, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for cables that expose a serial port via USB, I recommend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00IDSM6BW\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;th=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabrent USB 2.0 to Serial (9-Pin) DB-9 RS-232 Converter Cable using the Prolific Chipset<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial ports are a thing of yesteryear, but never seem to go away. If you have a USB adapter that exposes serial ports to your favorite Linux branch, knowing how to get to them isn&#8217;t intuitive. puTTY is a great terminal emulator, and you can connect to whichever port is exposed using the following format: If it&#8217;s on a different port, use&nbsp;\/dev\/ttyUSB1, etc. As for cables that expose a serial port via USB, I recommend the Sabrent USB 2.0 to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2368\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technicalproblemsolutions","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Cc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}