Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:40:57 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5? Message-ID: <200509041341.05026@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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--nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 needs ucom and uplcom, you can also load uplcom as module!. =2DHarr > > 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. > > Any advice/pointers is welcome. > > TIA. --nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDGt1QBylq0S4AzzwRAq1gAJ4iw/adevMho631uG+w/3TS2AavFQCfT2c2 +TL0wvdjOBsmGnSMx0AVfAI= =QMW3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU--
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