On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 01:15:07PM +0800, Liangent wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I bought a new USB-RS232 cable and the system loads ch341.ko for me
> (Debian with kernel 3.14-2-amd64 and 3.16.0-4-amd64). However this
> module does not work with my cable (/dev/ttyUSB0 appears but the
> serial device doesn't work properly) while the driver provided by chip
> vendor[1] works (this driver doesn't compile on kernel 3.16 anymore
> but 3.14 is fine).
> 
> This is dmesg output with the vendor-provided driver.
> 
> [ 1900.070021] usb 2-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
> [ 1900.163218] usb 2-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=1a86, idProduct=7523
> [ 1900.163227] usb 2-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=0
> [ 1900.163232] usb 2-1.4: Product: USB2.0-Ser!
> [ 1900.163887] ch34x 2-1.4:1.0: ch34x converter detected
> [ 1900.165052] usb 2-1.4: ch34x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> 
> For the record I've used an old cable which works fine with the
> built-in ch341.ko driver, but unfortunately that cable is not in my
> hand anymore.
> 
> [1] http://wch.cn/downloads.php?name=pro&proid=177

That device should "just work" with the in-kernel driver.  The fact that
it is autoloaded is a good sign something is right.

So no data flows through the device at all when using it, or are there
other symptoms of "not working"?

thanks,

greg k-h
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