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Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:39 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>
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Subject: Re: USB-to-serial adapter configuration
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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:07:09PM +0000, Saifi Khan typed:
> Hi all:
> 
> How does one configure settings for  USB-to-serial adapter in FreeBSD ?
> 
> The one i have purchased is 
> http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=CHEAP-SERIAL&cats=199&catid=482%2C1303%2C199%2C461%2C106%2C1009%2C601
> 
> On the Gentoo box, 'lsusb' displays it as:
>  Bus 002 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 
>  Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port

Your adapter should be recognised by the uplcom driver. put uplcom_load="YES" in loader.conf
or load manually. Check dmesg for the device name.
Also, I think cu is "good enough" ;)

Ruben

> i have to access a headless AMD64X2 box running FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE, 
> from a FreeBSD 8.0 laptop.
> 
> So far, i've used 'cu' and '/dev/cu0a', but thats because both
> the systems had a serial port interface.
> 
> The key info i'm looking for is:
>  . what is the driver to load
>  . what is the device entry to look for
>  . is 'cu' good enough or i need to install some other tool
> 
> 
> thanks
> Saifi.
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