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Serial connection (COM ports) not found on Ubuntu Linux. #227

Closed sabicalija closed 6 years ago

sabicalija commented 6 years ago

ARE does not detect serial port (COM ports).

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 HW: virtualbox

Has been tested with and without super user privileges.

sabicalija commented 6 years ago

Two steps are necessary to correct mentioned issues:

  1. Add user to dialout group to avoid the necessity of super user privileges. 
    $ sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
  2. Stop ModemManager service 
    $ sudo service ModemManager stop