USBserial port convertor

Mike Woods mike at geofront.co.uk
Thu Dec 17 14:19:43 UTC 2009


Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51:28AM -0500, stan wrote:
>> I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just
>> purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. When I plug it in, I get the
>> following in dmesg:
>>
>> uhub3: <vendor 0x0409 product 0x005a, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on
>> uhub1
>> uhub3: single transaction translator
>> uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
>> ucom0: <FTDI FT232R USB UART, class 0/0, rev 2.00/6.00, addr 3> on uhub3
>> ucom1: <FTDI FT232R USB UART, class 0/0, rev 2.00/6.00, addr 4> on uhub3
> 
> Looks like it works. :-) the ucom(4) driver attaches.

Ah, but I *think* the point he's getting at is that he only seems to 
have 2 ports for an 8 port adaptor!

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