USB serial support on FreeBSD 3.5?
Simon Dick
simond at irrelevant.org
Wed Jul 2 05:31:59 PDT 2003
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:36, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.
For me the uftdi driver works nicely under -current using 20 ukp serial
adaptor I found:
ucom0: FTDI US232B, rev 1.10/4.00, addr 2
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