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authorRALOVICH, Kristof <tade60@freemail.hu>2015-05-31 16:57:44 +0200
committerRALOVICH, Kristof <tade60@freemail.hu>2015-05-31 16:57:44 +0200
commit38cdf809390e74c52edaeba096fcdd09deb891f4 (patch)
tree83be73ead6370b86d4165d6f9729adcd92df11df
parent734823bddb75757edd3b8aeab1a04a1b33957497 (diff)
tty: add documentation
-rw-r--r--src/SerialTty.cpp5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/SerialTty.cpp b/src/SerialTty.cpp
index 556e792..65e4415 100644
--- a/src/SerialTty.cpp
+++ b/src/SerialTty.cpp
@@ -366,6 +366,11 @@ SerialTty::open()
if(m_p->m_fd<0)
{
+ // Ofcourse you don't want to be running as root, so add your user to the group dialout like so:
+ //
+ // sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourUserName
+ //
+ // Log off and log on again for the changes to take effect!
char se[256];
char* ss = strerror_r(m_p->m_fd, se, sizeof(se));
LOG(antpm::LOG_ERR) << "Opening serial port failed! Make sure cp210x kernel module is loaded, and /dev/ttyUSBxxx was created by cp210x!\n"