Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:16:05 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5? Message-ID: <b7052e1e0509040016280f93e3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On 9/4/05, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: >=20 > I've got a USB -> RS232 adapter I'm trying to get working on 5.3-RELEASE. >=20 > 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). >=20 > Anyway, I get the impression that I'm missing some early, basic steps > to get this working. dmesg shows: >=20 > ugen0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00, add= r 2 >=20 > But neither tip nor cu seems to talk to ugen0 very well. Other posts > I've seen seem to indicate that I need to be talking to a ucom0 device, > but I see nothing like that in /dev. Is there something missing from > my kernel? I haven't been able to find any reference to ucom in the > GENERIC or NOTES files. What does happen if you load uplcom kernel module? --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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