From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 12:25:36 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 4019C16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:25:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (smtp.thilelli.net [213.41.129.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A514243D48 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:25:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3AC5C7F; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 85668-05; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA4C5C7D; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 145.248.192.30 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48049.145.248.192.30.1125923128.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20050905081618.1364ab59.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200509041341.05026@harrymail> <20050905081618.1364ab59.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:28 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" To: "Bill Moran" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at thilelli.net 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 Reply-To: jpeg@thilelli.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:25:36 -0000 >>> 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. I believe it can be found in NOTES under /usr/src/sys/conf, not /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. -- -jpeg.