Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 01:42 CEST schrieb Bill Moran: > I've got a USB -> RS232 adapter I'm trying to get working on > 5.3-RELEASE. > > I've seen a lot of comments about these kind of things that seem to > indicate that they can be used (I occasionally have needs to use this > lappy as a serial console, and I'd like to use it to demonstrate a > serial barcode scanner that we have - normally, tip would work great > for this, but the laptop doesn't have a native RS-232 port). > > Anyway, I get the impression that I'm missing some early, basic steps > to get this working. dmesg shows: > > ugen0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00, > addr 2
ugen is not ucom! ugen is used if nothing apropriate was found, your kernel needs ucom and uplcom, you can also load uplcom as module!. -Harr > > But neither tip nor cu seems to talk to ugen0 very well. Other posts > I've seen seem to indicate that I need to be talking to a ucom0 device, > but I see nothing like that in /dev. Is there something missing from > my kernel? I haven't been able to find any reference to ucom in the > GENERIC or NOTES files. > > Any advice/pointers is welcome. > > TIA.
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