Relay controller

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 14:59:24 +0100
Clayton Milos <clay at milos.co.za> wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> I'm looking for any help out there. I have a USB relay controller that 
> should be seen as a modem. I think there was something similar working 
> before under FreeBSD called a PICKit. When I look up the error I'm getting 
> it points to this kit. The vendor ID seems to be the same.
> 
> The chip on the controller I have is a PIC18F24 J50.
> 
> When I plug it in on a FreeBSD8.2 AMD64 release I get the following:
> root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x04d8 product 0x000a bus uhub2
> kernel: ugen2.2: <Microchip Technology Inc.> at usbus2
> 
> # usbconfig list
> ugen2.2: <CDC RS-232 Emulation Demo Microchip Technology Inc.> at usbus2, 
> cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON

That could be a CDCE device (communication class - ethernet). See cdce(4) man page.
Try to load the if_cdce kernel module, then plug in your device.
If that doen'st work, I'æm out of ideas.
-- 
Torfinn