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mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

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[solved, add user to right group] Lasercutter and Lightburn

I'm trying to get my devuan notebook to connect to may Lasercutter.
Software that came with the cutter is Lightburn and I can transfer files by using a thumb drive (copy the *.rd file onto it and the plug the drive into the cutter). But there is an interface to connect the cutter directly to USB (similar to a printer)
I have already installed pmount, so users are able to mount usb devices. The connection to the cutter is shown in the logs:

Sep 14 19:02:16 devuan kernel: [  526.280262] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
Sep 14 19:02:16 devuan kernel: [  526.481475] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001, bcdDevice= 6.00
Sep 14 19:02:16 devuan kernel: [  526.481483] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Sep 14 19:02:16 devuan kernel: [  526.481486] usb 3-1: Product: FT245R USB FIFO
Sep 14 19:02:16 devuan kernel: [  526.481489] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: FTDI
Sep 14 19:02:16 devuan kernel: [  526.481492] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: AR0K2G0Z
Sep 14 19:02:17 devuan kernel: [  526.499597] ftdi_sio 3-1:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
Sep 14 19:02:17 devuan kernel: [  526.499684] usb 3-1: Detected FT232RL
Sep 14 19:02:17 devuan kernel: [  526.504635] usb 3-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

So next step is installing "usbmodeswitch" to get usbserial?

Last edited by mclien (2021-09-15 10:42:09)

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: [solved, add user to right group] Lasercutter and Lightburn

No, according to the log there is a serial link set up (over USB) on /dev/ttyUSB0, so the next is to point the software to that.

First, of course, you need to make sure that the software (user) has permission to read and write /dev/ttyUSB0.
The "professional" way for that would be to make sure the user is in the special user group for operating that device, while the "hobbyist" approach is to simply chmod a+rw /dev/ttyUSB0 and let any user (on that computer) do anything to it.

mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

Posts: 100  

Re: [solved, add user to right group] Lasercutter and Lightburn

OK, first apologies for not reading my logs properly (I usually do that and understand it, might wise to not do those things with a migraine head...).
If happen to come to germay (once you are allowed anyways), barbecue is on me.

And thanks, you where totally right. Group "dialout" it is, which confused me a bit first, till I remembered what the tty serial was firstly used for... *sound of the modem in my head*

Last edited by mclien (2021-09-15 10:53:06)