Normally issuing modprobe usbserial vendor=0xF00D product=0xDEAD
creates a
/dev/ttyUSB$x
. The parameters here are optional, so if you are
lucky and your device is curated by the linux community, modprobe usbserial
might work. On my ubuntu home systems, this usually uses
the pl2302
driver or something similar.
This assumes a lot: that you have a working kernel with a bunch of