USB-serial converter recognised but not mounted

[Colin Law]

Any thoughts on this anyone?

2009/10/31 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
> I have a USB to serial converter. When I plug this in on a Ubuntu 9.04
> machine it works fine. With lsusb I see
>
> Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices
> International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
>
> and in dmesg I see
>
> [ 8139.812054] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
> [ 8140.020285] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [ 8140.022817] ftdi_sio 3-2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
> [ 8140.022863] usb 3-2: Detected FT232BM
> [ 8140.022958] usb 3-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>
> However on a Xubuntu 9.04 machine lsusb shows
>
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices
> International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
>
> which seems ok, but dmesg only shows
>
> [ 1287.847468] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
> [ 1288.126514] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>
> and the ttyUSB0 is not available.
>
> I suspect that the fact that it is Xubuntu is not relevant.
>
> Any suggestions on where to go from here would be much appreciated.
>
> Colin
>