Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:29:57 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Andrew Gordon <freebsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting a USB serial device working Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020116072209.01dcea00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020116123433.P39005-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> References: <200201160654.XAA19737@lariat.org>
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At 05:59 AM 1/16/2002, Andrew Gordon wrote: >It isn't. There are a wide variety of USB <-> Serial adapters, each using >their own proprietary protocol (unlike the more sane area of storage >devices which mostly implement the mass-storage class). > >In this case you have a small amount of luck, in that you've bought one of >the more open devices. There's Linux support at > > http://ftdi-usb-sio.sourceforge.net/ > >and I have used information from there to write a trivial dumb-terminal >which talks through the FreeBSD "ugen" device to access the port; this >is more proof-of-concept rather than anything useful, but I've put it >online in case of interest: > > http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/freebsd.html Unfortunately, if it's derived from Linux code it is likely to be GPL-infected. Was the GPL present in the source files or in the archive in which they came? If so, we must either ask the author to relicense or implement from scratch, since it is vitally important to keep the GPL out of the BSD kernels. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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