hi misc. some time ago i bought a usb to serial controller. after searching the archives and googling a lot, i found, that i want a profilic driven controller and nearly every cheap one should run profilic. although i thought i will be lucky, i got one, which doesn't run as expected (Logilink USB 2.0 Serial Adapter). the cd has, as usual, only mac and windows driver on it. the problems i see are: when i connect to my Soekris 4801 (running -STABLE) from my -CURRENT laptop (dmesg at the end), it drops directly in to ddb and i can't type any input. if i reboot it (power off and on again), it starts as usual and i can see the output but can't do any input on it (e.g. at the boot prompt or login). the faulty device registers as:
uplcom0 at uhub1 port 1 "Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller D" rev 1.10/4.00 addr 2 ucom0 at uplcom0 last week i gave another adapter a try, this time from Belkin. i went to there website and they dropped me to one their local retailer with this one: http://www.computeruniverse.net/products/90211762.asp?agent=682 (german computer shop) this controller works fine and gets recognized at this one: uplcom0 at uhub3 port 1 "Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller" rev 1.10/3.00 addr 2 ucom0 at uplcom0 now i can connect and my Soekris doesn't drop into ddb anymore and input is also fine. i tested the LogiLink on a windows box and used the vendor's drivers and hyperterminal and everything works, so this isn't a hardware thing. i am willing to donate this one (with or without the cd). don't know, if it's of interest, but this thing also doesn't work on FreeBSD or fedora (with minicom). Is anyone interested in this piece of hardware? cheers, marc ~ $ dmesg OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Tue Jun 3 11:08:37 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 2145841152 (2046MB) avail mem = 2072039424 (1976MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (68 entries) bios0: vendor LENOVO version "79ETE0WW (2.20 )" date 12/07/2007 bios0: LENOVO 2007QPG acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT ECDT TCPA APIC MCFG HPET SLIC BOOT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices LID_(S3) SLPB(S3) LURT(S3) DURT(S3) EXP0(S4) EXP1(S4) EXP2(S4) EXP3(S4) PCI1(S4) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB7(S3) HDEF(S4) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz, 1995.29 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG cpu0: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 166MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz, 1995.00 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG cpu1: 4MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 2, remapped to apid 1 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (AGP_) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (EXP0) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (EXP1) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 4 (EXP2) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 12 (EXP3) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 21 (PCI1) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2 acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3, C2 acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 127 degC acpitz1 at acpi0: critical temperature 99 degC acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID_ acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 not present acpibat1 at acpi0: BAT1 not present acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpithinkpad0 at acpi0 acpidock at acpi0 not configured cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x06130c2506000613 cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1000 MHz (1004 mV): speeds: 2000, 1000 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82945GM Host" rev 0x03 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82945GM PCIE" rev 0x03: apic 1 int 16 (irq 11) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon Mobility X1400" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) agp0 at vga1: no integrated graphics azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801GB HD Audio" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 17 (irq 11) azalia0: codec[s]: Analog Devices/0x1981, Conexant/0x2bfa, using Analog Devices/0x1981 audio0 at azalia0 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 20 (irq 11) pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 em0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82573L)" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:16:41:e3:4a:ff ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 21 (irq 11) pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 wpi0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 17 (irq 11), MoW2, address 00:19:d2:07:cf:36 ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 22 (irq 11) pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 23 (irq 11) pci5 at ppb4 bus 12 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 16 (irq 11) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 17 (irq 11) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 18 (irq 11) uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 19 (irq 11) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 19 (irq 11) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb5 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xe2 pci6 at ppb5 bus 21 cbb0 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "TI PCI1510 CardBus" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 16 (irq 11) cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0 cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 22 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0xb0 pcmcia0 at cardslot0 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GBM LPC" rev 0x02 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801GB IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets, initiator 7 cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, DVDRAM GSA-4083N, 1.08> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GBM AHCI" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 16 (irq 11), AHCI 1.1 scsibus1 at ahci0: 32 targets, initiator 32 sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <ATA, SAMSUNG HM160HI, HR10> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 152627MB, 19457 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 312581808 sec total ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x02: apic 1 int 23 (irq 11) iic0 at ichiic0 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31 ugen0 at uhub4 port 2 "STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor" rev 1.00/0.01 addr 2 softraid0 at root root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b