From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 11:41:26 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 9725C16A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:41:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DC6F43D48 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:41:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Sep 2005 11:41:23 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) [62.245.232.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp016) with SMTP; 04 Sep 2005 13:41:23 +0200 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:40:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050903194236.7da253ba.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Birthday: Oct. 6th 1972 X-CelPhone: +49 (0) 173 9967781 X-Tel: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Country: Germany X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-OS: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509041341.05026@harrymail> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Bill Moran 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 11:41:26 -0000 --nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 01:42 CEST schrieb Bill Moran: > 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= =20 needs ucom and uplcom, you can also load uplcom as module!. =2DHarr > > 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. > > Any advice/pointers is welcome. > > TIA. --nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDGt1QBylq0S4AzzwRAq1gAJ4iw/adevMho631uG+w/3TS2AavFQCfT2c2 +TL0wvdjOBsmGnSMx0AVfAI= =QMW3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1434064.RFPYH7QNFU--