From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 07:16:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965B116A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 07:16:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A28A43D48 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 07:16:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so341187wra for ; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:16:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gPpvnhPda82GUtbY9k3DcOWnmIM4BD3APlR5ujtUEt2+L9APz/RiesQgzn7ShUgyphdq469ExoJo9UPyzr3pVHzzO4vIR6yDIwRtsprpCIGe/xgxNtI3yuFEKHcPZkZUE/kmz1OK0c3DbGcaw3T8ZPwjlLnNvtCRpag6PAI8s1g= Received: by 10.54.56.56 with SMTP id e56mr3477407wra; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 00:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:16:05 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:16:06 -0000 On 9/4/05, Bill Moran 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"