Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 22:12 schrieb Adam J. Richter: > When I plug in a pl2303-based usb serial device, the device is > supposed to appear as /dev/tts/USB0 (character device 188, 0). > However, under kernels that I have tried from 2.6.20-git3 through > 2.6.21-rc2-git1, /dev/tts/USB<some-random-number> is created, and > attempting to open that file returns a "no such device" error. I have > not seen that random number exceed 256, by the way. Doing "mknod > /dev/tts/USB0 c 188 0" and then opening that file resulted kernel oops > on the one kernel version on which I tried it (I think around > 2.6.20-git11).
Please try this patch. It is needed in any case and it may be your problem's cause. Regards Oliver --- linux-2.6.21-rc1/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c.alt 2007-02-21 05:32:30.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc1/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c 2007-02-26 15:32:50.000000000 +0100 @@ -826,7 +826,6 @@ num_ports = type->num_ports; } - serial->minor = minor; serial->num_ports = num_ports; serial->num_bulk_in = num_bulk_in; serial->num_bulk_out = num_bulk_out; @@ -980,6 +979,7 @@ dev_err(&interface->dev, "No more free serial devices\n"); goto probe_error; } + serial->minor = minor; /* register all of the individual ports with the driver core */ for (i = 0; i < num_ports; ++i) { ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel