>>> 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!. > That took care of it. The device works perfectly now. > > Thanks to all who responded. > > It seems as if ucom is mentioned in neither GENERIC nor NOTES. Must be > pretty new, I guess. Works like a charm, though. I believe it can be found in NOTES under /usr/src/sys/conf, not /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. -- -jpeg. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"