From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 01:22:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923C016A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:22:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FB743D48 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:22:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j661Mgte067361; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:22:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Daryl Sayers Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:23:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 205.211.164.50 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usb to serial problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:22:54 -0000 On 06 Jul 2005 09:11:19 +1000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > >I had an Aten USB to Serial device attached to an old laptop running >FreeBSD 4.7. I am now upgrading to much newer IBM thinkpad (A21m) :-) >I have installed FreeBSD 4.10 onto this machine and am now trying to >get the Aten to work. I have rebuilt the kernel with the extra devices: If possible, go to 5.4 instead. There are a lot of USB bug fixes and enhancements over the RELENG_4 branch. I have a similar USB device (same chipset) that works just fine using that driver. On the RELENG_4 branch, it would panic for me too often. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)