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Date:      Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:16:18 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?
Message-ID:  <20050905081618.1364ab59.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200509041341.05026@harrymail>
References:  <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200509041341.05026@harrymail>

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Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> 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



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