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Unable to use USB dongle based on USB-serial converter chip

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I have a USB Zigbee dongle, but I'm unable to connect to it. It briefly shows up in /dev/ttyUSB0, but then quickly disappears. I see the following output in the console:
$ dmesg --follow
...
[  738.365561] usb 1-10: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[  738.607730] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523, bcdDevice= 2.64
[  738.607737] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  738.607739] usb 1-10: Product: USB Serial
[  738.619446] ch341 1-10:1.0: ch341-uart converter detected
[  738.633501] usb 1-10: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[  738.732348] audit: type=1130 audit(1632606446.974:2212): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=brltty-device@sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.3-0000:03:00.0-usb1-1\x2d10 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[  738.768081] audit: type=1130 audit(1632606447.007:2213): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=brltty@-sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.3-0000:03:00.0-usb1-1\x2d10 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
[  738.776433] usb 1-10: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by ch341 while 'brltty' sets config #1
[  738.783508] ch341-uart ttyUSB0: ch341-uart converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[  738.783521] ch341 1-10:1.0: device disconnected
[  739.955783] input: BRLTTY 6.4 Linux Screen Driver Keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input35
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Asked by flaviut (974 rep)
Sep 25, 2021, 10:01 PM
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