From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 12:16:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 A25BE16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F7B43D46 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (24-53-250-148.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.250.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5116269A4C; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:16:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:16:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Emanuel Strobl Message-Id: <20050905081618.1364ab59.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200509041341.05026@harrymail> References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200509041341.05026@harrymail> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:16:24 -0000 Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 01:42 CEST schrieb Bill Moran: > > I've got a USB -> RS232 adapter I'm trying to get working on > > 5.3-RELEASE. > > > > I've seen a lot of comments about these kind of things that seem to > > indicate that they can be used (I occasionally have needs to use this > > lappy as a serial console, and I'd like to use it to demonstrate a > > serial barcode scanner that we have - normally, tip would work great > > for this, but the laptop doesn't have a native RS-232 port). > > > > Anyway, I get the impression that I'm missing some early, basic steps > > to get this working. dmesg shows: > > > > ugen0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00, > > addr 2 > > ugen is not ucom! ugen is used if nothing apropriate was found, your kernel > needs ucom and uplcom, you can also load uplcom as module!. That took care of it. The device works perfectly now. Thanks to all who responded. It seems as if ucom is mentioned in neither GENERIC nor NOTES. Must be pretty new, I guess. Works like a charm, though. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com