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differentiate between identical USB devices on Linux

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Mar 15, 20263707 views
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I'm using two identical USB to serial adapter on my Linux system. So depends on who's inserted first, one of them will be represented with name /dev/ttyUSB0 and the other with /dev/ttyUSB1. Is there a trick I can make the name persistent? I have three USB port. Is it possible to link the name to th…

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Fix for: differentiate between identical USB devices on Linux

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If you run you should see the various properties you can use to create rules from. The property indicates the port the device was plugged into. Insert the serial to usb device to see what udev sees. So it should be straightforward to create a udev r…

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