USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Sep 5 06:05:58 PDT 2005


"Julien Gabel" <jpeg at thilelli.net> wrote:

> >>> I've got a USB -> RS232 adapter I'm trying to get working on
> >>> 5.3-RELEASE.

<snip>

> >>> 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!.
> 
> > That took care of it.  The device works perfectly now.
> >
> > Thanks to all who responded.
> >
> > It seems as if ucom is mentioned in neither GENERIC nor NOTES.  Must be
> > pretty new, I guess.  Works like a charm, though.
> 
> I believe it can be found in NOTES under /usr/src/sys/conf, not
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf.

You're correct.

I guess I understand why they split NOTES up, but it sure makes it
a PITA to figure out what options are available ;)

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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