I have a CurrentCost electricity usage monitor which is normally connected to my desktop via USB. When the unit is plugged in I get a number of lines in syslog like so:
kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12 kernel: pl2303 4-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected kernel: usb 4-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
I am trying to get this same device working on my laptop but this time I see the following in syslog:
kernel: pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
but nothing else i.e no 'attached to ttyUSB0'. Looking in /dev there is no ttyUSBn
Whereas the desktop also loads the pl2303 and usbserial kernel modules automatically when the device is connected the laptop does not and when I load them manually I get only the above mentioned line in syslog.
Needless to say the software which monitors the device won't connect.
Any suggestions?
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:34:13PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
Needless to say the software which monitors the device won't connect.
Sorry, can't help on the other stuff but out of interest what software are you using with the currentcost? I've had mine well over a year now and erm, never got around to doing anything with it. :)
Adam
On 05/08/10 17:47:51, Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 04:34:13PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
Needless to say the software which monitors the device won't connect.
Sorry, can't help on the other stuff but out of interest what software are you using with the currentcost?
I've had mine well over a year now and erm, never got around to doing anything with it. :)
No sense in rushing these things. :-))
Adam
http://code.google.com/p/currentcostgui/
It's based on Python and there are linux and windows versions.
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