minicom and ugen

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 11 March 2005 10:33 am, Paulo Roberto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to use a usb/serial converter with minicom. I loaded
> ucom and uplcom, but only ugen messages are printed on the console.
>
> ugen0: FTDI USB <-> Serial, rev 1.10/4.00, addr 2
>
> I tried ugen0, ugen0.1 and ugen0.2 with no success.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Paulo
>

ugen usually indicates that the system was unable to identify the usb 
device.  Is your adapter supported?  Do you need to load an additional 
driver?  See the online hardware notes:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#USB
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/hardware-i386.html#USB

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould