From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 05:36:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62DA16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:36:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nw-smtp.wineasy.se (nw-smtp-03.wineasy.se [195.42.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C9643FCB for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anja@interpeak.se) Received: from interpeak.se (unknown [213.88.172.97]) by nw-smtp.wineasy.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC184083F for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:38:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F58761D.6050607@interpeak.se> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:40:13 +0200 From: Anders Jansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: USB and serial communication X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:36:56 -0000 Hi everyone, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.1 om my PC (my first FreeBSD ever and it looks really nice). However, there is one missing link to connect me to FreeBSD heave. I would like to have a larger number of serial ports than the 2 already aailable in my PC and so I turned my attention to USB. I have a little box that has converts one USB connector to 4 serial ports. When I plug in this box in one of my two USB connections on my PC, I get the following printouts in the /var/log/messages file: Sep 5 08:05:26 vile kernel: uhub3: Texas Instruments TUSB2046 hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.25, addr 2 Sep 5 08:05:26 vile kernel: uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered Sep 5 08:05:28 vile kernel: ugen0: FTDI USB FAST SERIAL ADAPTER, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 3 Sep 5 08:05:28 vile kernel: ugen1: FTDI USB FAST SERIAL ADAPTER, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 4 Sep 5 08:05:29 vile kernel: ugen2: FTDI USB FAST SERIAL ADAPTER, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 5 Sep 5 08:05:30 vile kernel: ugen3: FTDI USB FAST SERIAL ADAPTER, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 6 Furthermore: bash-2.05b# ls -l /dev/u* crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 0 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen0 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 1 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen0.1 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 2 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen0.2 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 16 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen1 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 17 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen1.1 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 18 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen1.2 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 32 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen2 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 33 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen2.1 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 34 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen2.2 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 48 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen3 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 49 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen3.1 crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 114, 50 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/ugen3.2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Sep 5 13:36 /dev/urandom -> random crw-rw---- 1 root operator 108, 255 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/usb crw-rw---- 1 root operator 108, 0 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/usb0 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 108, 1 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/usb1 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 108, 2 Sep 5 11:36 /dev/usb2 And finally I try: bash-2.05b# cu -l ugen0 -s 9600 fcntl: Invalid argument bash-2.05b# I have searched the internet for some help on this but I haven't found anything useful. I would be most grateful for any kind of assistance. Cheers Anders