Windows 8 device manager showing the Pololu Orangutan SVP.
To determine the port name in Linux, type
ls /dev/ttyACM*
. The port name will be one of the devices
listed there. If there are only three ports, then the USB Communication Port will be
/dev/ttyACM1
(the
programmer will be
/dev/ttyACM0
and the TTL serial port will be
/dev/ttyACM2
). If you see more than
three ports, then you should look at the output from
dmesg
when you plug in the Orangutan SVP to
see which three ports are created; the second port is the USB Communication Port. In Linux, the port
name depends on how many other devices are using the USB CDC ACM driver to create virtual serial
ports at the time the Orangutan SVP is plugged in.
To determine the port name in Mac OS X, type
ls /dev/tty.usb*
. There should be three entries for
the Orangutan SVP, and the USB Communication Port should be the second one.
After determining the port name, you can use any serial port software to communicate on that port.
There
are
many
free
terminal
programs
available,
including
PuTTY
[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/]
(Windows or Linux),
Tera Term
[http://hp.vector.co.jp/
authors/VA002416/teraterm.html]
(Windows), and
Br@y Terminal
[http://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/]
(Windows). To use any of these terminal programs, you must specify the port name determined above.
Pololu Orangutan SVP User’s Guide
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8. Using the USB Communication Port
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