From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 23:55:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 618) id 7FDAB37B401; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:55:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20030707061912.GB44762@funkthat.com> from John-Mark Gurney at "Jul 6, 2003 11:19:12 pm" To: gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:55:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030707065557.7FDAB37B401@hub.freebsd.org> From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MCT USB<->RS232 driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 06:55:57 -0000 > 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