Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:20:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Flynn <dennis_flynn@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 Stable and the CP2101 driver Message-ID: <437286.30504.qm@web54011.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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I/m new to FreeBSD (but not Unix in general) and I am setting up an embedded server to acquire data from a weather station. The data comes from the weather station console via the USB port on the server. The USB device is a Silicon Labs CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller. Apparently this driver has been added to FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE - http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/7-STABLE/relnotes.html. I tried installing the update, e.g. "freebsd-update -r 7.0-STABLE fetch", then "freebsd-update -r 7.0-STABLE upgrade". Seemed to work. But I do not seem to have the device driver loaded when I plug in the USB device. I get the folowwing in the messages log: Jun 10 16:48:02 wx kernel: ugen0: <Silicon Labs CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2> on uhub0 But I don't see a device that I think I should see, like /dev/ttyU0. If I do a "uname -a" I see the following: FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 That doesn't seem right to me. Shouldn't I see something like 7.0-RELEASE-p1 or 7.0-STABLE? Did I do something wrong in my update to RELEASE? How do I know if I'm running the STABLE kernel with the driver I want? How can I tell if the driver (uslcom) is there and/or loaded? Thanks in advance for all help. -Dennis Dennis Flynn Home Work
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