USB serial support on FreeBSD 3.5?

Josef Karthauser joe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 1 11:39:47 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Les Biffle wrote:
> (I tried searching the mailing list archives, and suspect that the search
> engine is broken.  It returned "Nothing found" no matter what I requested.)
> 
> I need two serial ports on a modern server running our 3.5-based firewall 
> code, but the 1U servers I find have only one serial port.  I need one
> for console and one for our dongle, and wondered if there was stable
> USB serial adaptor support in 3.5?  Would my dongle code (that assumes
> a "normal" serial port) have trouble accessing a serial dongle by way
> of USB?
> 

I don't believe that there is any USB support in 3.x at all.

Joe
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