USB support under linux

corbotics

I'm attempting to communicate with the basic stamp under a linux OS. I've already grabbed the utility provided by Bill Kendrick et al at http://bstamp.sourceforge.net/ but this code uses a serial port and I've got the new-fangled USB boards. Is there a code out there that will tokenize and send a pbasic program to the basic stamp via a usb connection? Thanks in advance.

allanlane5

When you plug in the USB board, the driver (which you should have pre-loaded) makes the board look like an attached serial port -- so the Linux serial port code should still work.

corbotics

Thanks for the help. Shortly after I posted I discovered that the only modification required was to link to /dev/ttyUSB0 instead of /dev/ttyS0. I was frankly amazed how simple it turned out to be.