Greyout serial in Ubuntu

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Hello

I have been trying to get arduino working on linux (Ubuntu 9.04)
But the serial port is greyed out

am not a expert at linux so bear with me but

bash: /dev/ttyUSB*: No such file or directory

I think the USB isnt enabled or something tho I can use usb pens

I followed everything as the playground has show. I recently rebooting to try fix this to no result.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Hi,
the serial-ports
/dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc
on Linux are created the moment (add 1-2 seconds before things have settled) you connect an Arduino board to your computer. If nothing is plugged, in the serial ports don't exists and are therefore not shown.

Eberhard