USB serial adapter, cu write: Device not configured

[Fabio Dive]

the groups of the user seaman are:

seaman at bluehouse:~$ groups
seaman wheel kmem operator dialer vboxusers usb

thank you
f.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:49, Fabio Dive <fabiodive at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forget to remember that I am receiving the output of the remote device
> if I bootstrap it, I even receive the login prompt, but I am not able
> to transmit,
> hitting a key produce:
>
> write: Device not configured
>
> thank you
> f.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:23, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Fabio Dive wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello people!
>>>>
>>>> I write you because I have got a problem with the uplcom driver
>>>> on FreeBSD 9.0, I tried a lot of different things, read all I found,
>>>> manpages, forums, irc, google but still not able to solve my problem.
>>>>
>>>> I need to connect to my remote Alix board,
>>>> the remote console setup is 19200 8N1.
>>>> I am using a short USB Prolific Tec.. serial cable adapter with a
>>>> NULL modem cable, the last one plugged one side to the Alix board,
>>>> the other side to the adapter cable.
>>>>
>>>> Under Linux Debian everything is fine, so the hardware and cables
>>>> should be ok, under Linux I used minicom and cu and tip without problems.
>>>> With FreeBSD and NetBSD, big problems..the result is always
>>>> the same, I can receive but I cannot transmit.
>>>>
>>>> (working as root)
>>>> *cu -t -s 19200 -l /dev/cuaU0
>>>> write: Device not configured
>>>> (I can't transmit but I can receive the output if I reboot the remote
>>>> alix board)
>>>
>>>
>>> Add the user to the dialer group.  If that doesn't do it, make sure the
>>> user has write permission to the USB device and /dev/cuaU0.
>>
>>
>> Managed to locate my PL2303 cable, and it works on 9-stable amd64 built
>> yesterday:
>>
>>  % cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -s 19200
>>  can't open log file /var/log/aculog.
>>  Connected
>>  AT
>>  OK
>>  ~
>>  [EOT]
>>
>> I typed the "AT".  If the USB cable is disconnected and reconnected while cu
>> still has it open, typing a character produces
>>
>>  write: Device not configured
>>
>> because the device disappeared when the USB cable was unplugged.  The send
>> and receive LEDs on this modem also both go on, meaning some data is being
>> continuously sent and echoed.
>>
>> /etc/devfs.rules (just the USB ones)
>>
>>  [localrules=10]
>>  add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group operator
>>  add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator
>>
>> The user is a member of both dialer and operator groups.
>>
>> If it still does not work for you, check loader.conf and rc.conf for
>> nonstandard settings.