Got the new version of Linux Mint 18.2 installed. Got a program called CWCOM (download from here) Which works fine in Windows. It also works in Linux ( I have had it running on my Linux Mint before ). When I wrote up my guide for Linux, I must have made a couple of errors in the terminal instructions as I cannot get the 'COMPORT' number to 'register/lock' when I choose the comport in the CWCOM program If you install CWCOM. ( it doesn`t take long ).

You will need WINE to get the install to work. CWCOM does work using the 'down arrow key' to send morse.( default setting). But I need the USB to serial COMPORT for using an externally attached morse key.

However, in Linux Mint this is not happening. This list is blank. In terminal if I type lsusb I get Bus 002 Device 007: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port When I do. [ 79.894335] usb 2-2.2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0. If it does not, then the driver is not loading properly.

Install wim tweak exede. So need the 'COMPORT' to lock on when chosen. Can someone, with Linux Knowledge, please check through my write up and see where I have gone wrong, and give me the corrected instructions When I do dmesg. The correct answer is given showing the PL2303 connected to USB0 (not USB1 as in instructions). ( that may be the problem. But in other threads on other forums, USB0 seems to be the 'norm' and maybe I copied it wrong originally!! I have tried various forms of $ ln -s and used several comport numbers 3, 4, and 6, ( I even tried using 4 again, but it reported that COM4 was already registered. The other part where the problem 'may' be.

Is in the 'dial out' part. However that seems simple enough. And I am registered as gerry in the Users and Groups on the menu listing. Well your first problem is you MUST be a member of the dial group, we found that last time. The 2nd is you need to link the correct ttyUSB to com. IF you see ttyUSB0 when using dmesg, then you need to use ttyUSB0 NOT ttyUSB1, that is a completely different port.

Ln -sf /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com4 (that is lower case L not fig 1) which should be returned by the terminal REBOOT YOUR LINUX MACHINE TO GET THIS TO TAKE EFFECT. You do NOT need to reboot at this point, only after joining the group and you do not even have to reboot then just log off and back in. Make your instructions more flexable, e.g.

Use /dev/ttyUSBn where n is the port returned by dmesg. Yes, I have done a 'new' install from a USB stick. As I wanted to 'prove' the usb stick. And also to 'prove' the instructions that I had written. Thanks for your help in the remove the comport numbers.

I have actually found the problem in the syntax as you will see from the pics below. Dmesg then I did lsusb dmesg again then I did the ls line on my instructions. And it returned an error. The 'help' is of no help whatsoever. So I scratched my head.

Got a can of beer, and some red leicester cheese mini cheddars. Ate a couple of mini cheddars.

And tried again, removing the f from -sf and inserting a space before /dev/ttyUSB0 Did a reboot.opened up CWCOM. And put the comport number as 4. And HEY PRESTO. We have communication over the internet, via Linux Mint 18.2 and morse code. So now I will do another 're-write' and include the pics from this, as proof!!.

Thanks again HB. Much appreciate your patience and time.

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I received this in about a month after ordering as it comes from China. The comments made about chipset fraud is patently false. I conducted a hardware check and it checks out as genuine.