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Date:      Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul)
To:        gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney)
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MCT USB<->RS232 driver
Message-ID:  <20030707065557.7FDAB37B401@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030707061912.GB44762@funkthat.com> from John-Mark Gurney at "Jul 6, 2003 11:19:12 pm"

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> Bill Paul wrote this message on Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 21:36 -0700:
> > When I got it home, I found that almost everything is supported in
> > FreeBSD 5.x, except for one thing: the serial port. The chip is a
> > MCT USB-232 device, which is supported in NetBSD, but not FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Not to be denied, I grabbed the umct(4) driver from NetBSD and got
> > it working well enough that I can run userland PPP over it with my
> 
> Anything wrong with umct in -current?  (scottl commited it just 9 days
> ago.)  Or is this a different driver that is not compatible?

Argh. Yes, this is the same device. And yes, Scott's driver is much
nicer than the monstrosity I created. I need to update my local copy
of the -current USB code more often. :/

Ah well. At least now this port expander is fully supported.

-Bill



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