USB serial support on FreeBSD 3.5?
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Jul 1 15:36:47 PDT 2003
In message: <200307011836.h61Ia9ic000589 at ns3.safety.net>
Les Biffle <les at ns3.safety.net> writes:
: 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've been using the new umct driver with the Belkin <mumble>109
dongle. It works well for me for data collection and some minor
DTR/DSR frobbing. Well enought that I a program I wrote for the
Newton Keyboard + sio (and SunOS 4/5) works unaltered.
Warner
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