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Aug 17 13:58:48 <spwestwood> Hi. I have a USB2Serial adapter and I am trying to get info off it from my NSLU2. I found http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Peripherals/USB2Serial, but the instructions are for OpenSlug, and I have SlugOS. Is usbserial no longer available?
Aug 17 13:59:59 <ShadowJK> So, there's no usbserial available from your ipkg?
Aug 17 14:01:40 <ShadowJK> I have SlugOS and usbserial kernel modules are available..
Aug 17 14:02:40 <spwestwood> ipkg install usbserial returned 'Cannot find package usbserial.'
Aug 17 14:04:32 <ShadowJK> Well, you could do something like "ipkg list | grep usbserial" to list all available packages with 'usbserial' in the name... but the attentive reader would point out that the wiki page you linked says 'kernel-module-usbserial' and not 'usbserial' ;-)
Aug 17 14:06:46 <spwestwood> Sorry, I meant kernal-module-usbserial. From ipkg list I don't have any usbserial. The only ones with usb in are libusb, py-usb, py25-usb, usbutils
Aug 17 14:07:39 <ShadowJK> what's the output of 'which ipkg'?
Aug 17 14:08:24 <spwestwood> /opt/bin/ipkg
Aug 17 14:09:11 <ShadowJK> You're using the wrong ipkg ;-)
Aug 17 14:09:35 <ShadowJK> try use /usr/bin/ipkg instead of plain ipkg, to get the right one
Aug 17 14:09:41 <ShadowJK> the one belonging to slugos
Aug 17 14:10:17 <spwestwood> No idea how I managed that!
Aug 17 14:11:04 <ShadowJK> You've probably installed optware, then modified your PATH to have /opt/bin before /usr/bin
Aug 17 14:11:04 <spwestwood> How do I switch? (Sorry I'm new not just to the NSLU2, but also to Linux)
Aug 17 14:11:26 <ShadowJK> Well you could just type /usr/bin/ipkg instead of ipkg
Aug 17 14:12:14 <spwestwood> Hmm - '/usr/bin/ipkg: not found'
Aug 17 14:13:30 <ShadowJK> Oh that's a worry :-)
Aug 17 14:14:21 <ShadowJK> oh, maybe you have a newer slugos
Aug 17 14:14:31 <spwestwood> I have 5.3 I think
Aug 17 14:14:41 <ShadowJK> try with just 'opkg'
Aug 17 14:14:43 <ShadowJK> without the quotes
Aug 17 14:17:05 <spwestwood> Ah ha
Aug 17 14:17:12 <spwestwood> kernel-module-usbserial is there
Aug 17 14:17:22 <spwestwood> So should I be using opkg not ipkg?
Aug 17 14:17:42 <ShadowJK> Yeah
Aug 17 14:18:17 <spwestwood> Thanks for your help!
Aug 17 14:18:21 <ShadowJK> I forgot slugos switched from ipkg to opkg in newer versions
Aug 17 14:39:25 <Reedy> smylink it if you keep forgetting ;)
Aug 17 14:39:31 <Reedy> s/smylink/symlink
Aug 17 15:08:08 <spwestwood> Following these instructions (http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Peripherals/USB2Serial) I did 'opkg install kernel-module-usbserial'. However 'insmod usbserial' gives the error 'insmod: can't read 'usbserial': No such file or directory'. Same with pl2303. 
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