[maemo-developers] Connecting RS232 devices to N800 hosting OS2008

[From: Aleksey Yashchenko]

Hi All,

There was several threads about using N800 USB host mode, and
Sebastian told us that its no problem to use N800 USB with Silabs
Serial converter.

I need to connect an RS232 device to N800 with OS2008 image uploaded.

The questions is:

How should I use this port?
a) will it be available as serial port? (some kind of tty?) where I
should look for drivers?

b) Should I communicate thru it as thru USB device? Any suggestions on
API, libraries? Or maybe I can just open() some character device from
/dev/ and read/write it? how in this case writed data will be mapped
to serial port's output?

c) for serial port I need to set up the baud rate, stop bits, etc. how
should I deal with it when device is connected thru USB?

Thanks for any ideas!

Best regards,
 Aleksey Yashchenko