West Mountain Radio drivers have been included in the Linux kernel since 
version 3.8.4. Most recent distributions should have no problem 
automatically recognizing WMR devices.

(The following notes are for Ubuntu but may also apply to derived 
distributions).

You can find the serial port by opening a terminal and typing:

ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*


This should return a display similar to the one below:

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Sep 30 13:49 /dev/ttyUSB0


If the group "dialout" is not listed in the output you will need to add 
your username to that group. This is the most common reason why rig 
control or ptt won't function!

Use the following command:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>


where <username> is your linux username... and then log off and log back 
on for the changes to take effect.

If you have more than one USB serial device on your system you can use 
the following command to determine which ttyUSB device number is 
assigned to the RIGblaster:

ls -l /dev/serial/by-id | grep 'RIGblaster'


This will return a display similar to:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct  7 05:42
usb-Silicon_Labs_West_Mountain_Radio_RIGblaster_Advantage_d5b25d6b-if00-port0 -> ../../ttyUSB0



To show the RIGblaster Advantage sound card playback device type the 
following:

aplay -l


Which should return a display similar to the following:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1882 Analog [AD1882 Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: AD1882 Alt Analog [AD1882 Alt Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: Audio [RIGblaster Advantage Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0


To show the RIGblaster Advantage sound card recording device use this:

arecord -l


Which should return a display similar to the following:

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1882 Analog [AD1882 Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: AD1882 Alt Analog [AD1882 Alt Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: Audio [RIGblaster Advantage Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0