USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

Emanuel Strobl Emanuel.strobl at gmx.net
Sun Sep 4 04:41:26 PDT 2005


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 
needs ucom and uplcom, you can also load uplcom as module!.

-Harr

>
> 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.
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