FreeBSD V5.0 and USB to Serial

Richard Kaestner richard.kaestner at ycn.com
Mon May 26 10:05:22 PDT 2003


My Notebook (Toshiba Satellite) does not have serial 
ports,
so I wanted to connect a serial adapter.

The adapter is recognized (see below), but I can't access 
any of the serial ports:

root at sat# minicom
minicom: cannot open /dev/ucom0: Device not configured
root at sat#


root at sat# cu -l ucom0
/dev/ucom0: Device not configured
link down
root at sat# cu -l ucom1
/dev/ucom1: Device not configured
link down
root at sat#

I will be happy about any hint!

R. Kaestner

PS.: hope, this is the right list to ask these questions. 
If not, sorry ! (but maybe, you can point me to the right 
list)


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Configuration data:

root at sat# uname -a
FreeBSD sat 5.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun 
May 25 14:02:46 CEST 2003 
    root at sat:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFK  i386
root at sat#



/boot/device.hints:
=====================
# rfk: Versuch USB:
hint.uftdi.0.at="uhub"
hint.uftdi.0.disabled="0"
hint.ucom.0.at="uftdi"
hint.ucom.0.disabled="0"


root at sat# tail -f /var/log/messages
===================================
May 26 13:05:38 sat kernel: uhub2: Texas Instruments 
TUSB2046 hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.25, addr 2
May 26 13:05:38 sat kernel: uhub2: 4 ports with 4 
removable, bus powered
May 26 13:05:40 sat kernel: ucom0: FTDI USB FAST SERIAL 
ADAPTER, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 3
May 26 13:05:40 sat kernel: ucom1: FTDI USB FAST SERIAL 
ADAPTER, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 4


May 26 13:10:34 sat kernel: uhub2: at uhub1 port 2 (addr 
2) disconnected
May 26 13:10:34 sat kernel: ucom0: detached
May 26 13:10:34 sat kernel: ucom1: detached
May 26 13:10:34 sat kernel: uhub2: detached

excerpt from /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/RFK
=========================================
# USB support
device		uhci		# UHCI PCI->USB interface
device		ohci		# OHCI PCI->USB interface
device		usb		# USB Bus (required)
#device		udbp		# USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device		ugen		# Generic
device		uhid		# "Human Interface Devices"
device		ukbd		# Keyboard
device		ulpt		# Printer
device		umass		# Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and 
da
device		ums		# Mouse
device		urio		# Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device		uscanner	# Scanners
# USB Ethernet, requires mii
device		aue		# ADMtek USB ethernet
device		cue		# CATC USB ethernet
device		kue		# Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet
# aus LINT:
device		umodem
device		ucom
device		uftdi
device		uplcom
device		ubsa
device		uvscom
device		uvisor
device		ufm

(NOTE: scbus and da are also configured)




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