Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

On 9/4/05, Bill Moran <wmoranpotentialtech.com>
wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.

What does happen if you load uplcom kernel module?

-- 
Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements

"We live less by imagination than despite it" -
Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questionsfreebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que
stions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscribefreebsd.org"