From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 16 6:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E91037B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:30:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA23166; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:30:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020116072209.01dcea00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:29:57 -0700 To: Andrew Gordon From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Getting a USB serial device working Cc: In-Reply-To: <20020116123433.P39005-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> References: <200201160654.XAA19737@lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:59 AM 1/16/2002, Andrew Gordon wrote: >It isn't. There are a wide variety of USB <-> Serial adapters, each using >their own proprietary protocol (unlike the more sane area of storage >devices which mostly implement the mass-storage class). > >In this case you have a small amount of luck, in that you've bought one of >the more open devices. There's Linux support at > > http://ftdi-usb-sio.sourceforge.net/ > >and I have used information from there to write a trivial dumb-terminal >which talks through the FreeBSD "ugen" device to access the port; this >is more proof-of-concept rather than anything useful, but I've put it >online in case of interest: > > http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/freebsd.html Unfortunately, if it's derived from Linux code it is likely to be GPL-infected. Was the GPL present in the source files or in the archive in which they came? If so, we must either ask the author to relicense or implement from scratch, since it is vitally important to keep the GPL out of the BSD kernels. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message