Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:25:28 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5? 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>
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>>> 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.
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