From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 03:47:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410371065682 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dennis_flynn@yahoo.com) Received: from web54011.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web54011.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0BAD8FC20 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:47:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dennis_flynn@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 31122 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jun 2008 03:20:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=GjnIgZgPFTuY6HUKnz0wPXEgSKlJ+BNWLjtoYgfS+EC5erjg+hMMb+lIt2p4nZEAna/2E8RcfNUGaL93j90AQXQ3ak40Xn+dEtn/iOnB5Z1vNVDcRdaWP2AEo5NfBI8mw7FhXqKzUX4lBsxCJ6cbdr8UiyCqTgOLMqPTtissinI=; X-YMail-OSG: prN9pikVM1mFjCXmCV0cvrWKtQoY4hkhU5Gb0uhJLg11uvjptvgXD5zXJ2uGhvEuk4j_drPle2IdVSAHWOXsRBOc7yvfs5ydWjxf1YYQppItnN6Kz17odvWNVA-- Received: from [71.172.52.194] by web54011.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:20:19 PDT Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:20:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Flynn To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <437286.30504.qm@web54011.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 Stable and the CP2101 driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dennis_flynn@yahoo.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:47:01 -0000 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: 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