Keyspan USB2Serial

[Jason Lixfeld]

Oh, and incase it matters..  It's a USA-19QW.

On 19-May-06, at 12:49 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

>
> On 19-May-06, at 8:58 AM, David Robillard wrote:
>
>>> On Thu, 18 May 2006 22:09:50 -0400
>>> Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd-questions at lixfeld.ca> wrote:
>>> Do you have ucom device in your kernel?
>>>
>>> Yup:
>>>
>>> # egrep "ugen|ucom" /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/RICKY
>>> device          ugen            # Generic
>>> device          ucom
>>> #
>>>
>>> after you plug it in,  have you got any /dev/cua* ?
>>>
>>> Only:
>>>
>>> # ls -al /dev/cuad0
>>> crw-rw----  1 uucp  dialer    0,  40 May 18 22:04 /dev/cuad0
>>> #
>>>
>>> But it is there regardless as to whether or not the adapter is  
>>> plugged in.
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> Be careful, because the first adapter I received was actually faulty.
>> The light would go on and the device would show up in my USB device
>> tree. But it would not work. After a few talks with Keyspan's  
>> support,
>> they had to send me a new one for it to work. The whole process was
>> free of charge.
>>
>> I would suggest you try the adapter on a MacOS X or Windows machine
>> along with the software that shipped with it just to make sure it
>> behaves as intended. Assuming you do have a Mac or a Win machine  
>> handy
>> of course.
>
> I've had this adapter for years and it works fine in Mac OS X.  I  
> just tested it in another identical machine running Gentoo with a  
> 2.6 kernel and it works fine there too.
>
> I can freely move it between Mac OS X and Linux without issue, but  
> as soon as I move it back to FreeBSD, it goes dead again.
>
> It's not the USB ports because I can connect a USB keyboard and/or  
> mouse into any of the other USB ports on that machine and they work  
> fine.
>
>> FYI: I use this adapter on MacOS X laptop to access the console of
>> FreeBSD, RedHat and Sun Microsystems machine. It works like a charm.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> David
>>
>> -- 
>> David Robillard
>> UNIX systems administrator
>> CISSP
>> Sun Certified Security Admin
>> Montreal: +1 514 966 0122
>>
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