I hope that someone on this can help. I need to get a usb to serial cable working. the verson of ubuntu is 9.04, the tipe of cable is a giga ware usb-a to serial cable with part # 26-949. i have triyed all the things that you have toled me to do , but it will not work for me. this is what it looks like. will@outside:~$ lsusb bus 001 device 001: id 1d6b:0002 linux foundation 2.0 root hub bus 003by I_spy - RepRap Host