USB driver issues

Computatrum

Hi. I have a Boe-bot with the Board of Education installed on it. I also have a laptop that is running Xubuntu 13.10 on it.The editor works fine, but when I try to run a program, the editor replies "No usable serial ports found." I also tried installing the USB drivers via Wine, but that still has not solved the problem. Are there any existing driver installer files for Linux, or will I have to use someone else's computer?

NWCCTV

http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm

LoopyByteloose

It may not be a driver issue, but that is certainly worth checking out.
It could be your Wine installation, or something else in the chain of items required to reach the serial port.

Can you see a USB serial port that is active in your /dev directory.? It should be something like ttyUSB0. If you have an cative ttyUSB0 in /dev, the driver is working fine. You can unplug your USB device and the ttyUSB0 will disappear. When you plug it in again, it will reappear.

Personally, I don't use Wine as early on it was infamous for not properly supporting serial ports just for this purpose. It is supposed to be fixed, so you may require a newer version of it.

Computatrum

I looked at /dev, and there is a folder there named serial and contains two folders named by-id and by-path. by-path contains a file named pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:3.4:1.0-port0, and
by-id contains a file named usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_A70056bo-if00-port0. I tried clicking on both of them, but it brought me to the menu to select which program to open them. Should I just use the drivers link that NWCCTV suggested?

NWCCTV

Should I just use the drivers link that NWCCTV suggested?

It's definately worth a try. Worst that could happen is that it does not work but then you can uninstall.

SRLM

Also, make sure that your user is part of dialout.