Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2014-01-15 Thread Johan Hovold
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:01:30AM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello together, i will close this bug at Debian now. After the last update this error seems to disappear in Debian stable. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ChangeLog USB: pl2303: fix device initialisation at open

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2014-01-13 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello together, i will close this bug at Debian now. After the last update this error seems to disappear in Debian stable. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ChangeLog USB: pl2303: fix device initialisation at open The source for this patch can be found here:

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-16 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 15.12.2013 18:05, schrieb Greg KH: Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have been hopefully fixed since June when you last looked. greg k-h no at this time i have not tested it - sorry. Although i am fascinated from your work i personally prefer to use stable

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-15 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 14.12.2013 18:08, schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-15 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:32:33AM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, Am 14.12.2013 18:08, schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have been hopefully fixed since June when you last

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-13 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Of course for Linux there are good alternatives. Here is a new one with the CP2102 suffering easy supply voltage: http://www.ebay.de/itm/110954294607 Best regards Karsten Am

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 20:56, schrieb Greg KH: But wiring that up to a real 9pin serial port would be a pain (doable, but a pain). Is there any devices out there with a DB-9 output connector? You mean if you want to test full handshake with all signals - that's true. Which is what the

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Greg KH: Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mistake, I am willing to donate the hardware to an able kernel hacker :-) Yes, I recommend the ftdi devices

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Johan Hovold
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a similar problem with this chip. Why do you think that this is related to the problems you

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 25.06.2013 18:54, schrieb Johan Hovold: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a similar problem with this chip. Why do you think

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Johan Hovold
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:12:28PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 25.06.2013 18:54, schrieb Johan Hovold: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? Yesterday i got this interesting mail from

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 25.06.2013 19:29, schrieb Johan Hovold: Maybe Aric can explain it better? I only see several problems to use a PL-2303 HX with newer kernels. Just to be clear, that's your setup. AFAICT Aric never got his setup to work with any kernel (but for a brief period with the same 3.0 kernel). The

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one. Does anyone know where I can purchase one? Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a similar

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one. Does anyone know where I can purchase one? Just take this one:

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Aric Fedida
I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mistake, I am willing to donate the hardware to

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 18:38, schrieb Aric Fedida: I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one.

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 20:18, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:37:59PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 24.06.2013 20:18, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Aric Fedida wrote: I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. I'll send it off-list, thanks. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-20 Thread Johan Hovold
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 09:50:52AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 19.04.2013 16:39, schrieb Johan Hovold: Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are being read back in the log you provided. Stop - it's really possible that i send not enough bytes.

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 18.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: I have used a little perl program that opens the port and send Test to the looped back device. The length of the log looks good. Great. Now I can see what's going on. The only problem (?) is that everything seems to be working. The write succeeds and

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 18.04.2013 12:56, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you generate a log where bytes are actually lost? Nothing seemed to get lost in the previous log you posted. This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) How can i enable the debugging in kernel 3.8.5? Make sure debugfs

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:25:19AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 18.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: I have used a little perl program that opens the port and send Test to the looped back device. The length of the log looks good. Great. Now I can see what's going on. The only

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:36:57AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 18.04.2013 12:56, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you generate a log where bytes are actually lost? Nothing seemed to get lost in the previous log you posted. This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics.

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi Johan, Am 19.04.2013 11:04, schrieb Johan Hovold: This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are being read back in the log you provided. Stop - it's really possible that i send not enough bytes.

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:26:48PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hi Johan, Am 19.04.2013 11:04, schrieb Johan Hovold: This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are being read back in the log you

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:43:11PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you minimise your test setup using a custom program which only opens the device, initialises it, writes the four characters (e.g. test) and reads them back (over you hardwired

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses dynamic debugging? I have compiled a 3.8.5 kernel now on Debian testing (wheezy). The result is the same as in 3.2.0 ! I could receive only some of the first bytes after opening the

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Johan Hovold
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:36:17PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses dynamic debugging? I have compiled a 3.8.5 kernel now on Debian testing (wheezy). The result is the same as in

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 09:56:43AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 15.04.2013 18:16, schrieb Greg KH: When i look at the debug output of the opened working port i would say there is a polling for reading data about every 100 µs.

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Johan, Am 17.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: You should, but note, that's userspace, or the line discipline asking for this, but we might have tty changes that have cleaned this up so we aren't so chatty anymore. I attached the sources of the driver from the Debian kernel sources

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:12:54PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Johan, Am 17.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: You should, but note, that's userspace, or the line discipline asking for this, but we might have tty changes that have cleaned this up so we aren't so chatty anymore.

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 17.04.2013 13:31, schrieb Johan Hovold: The logs there appear not to have debugging enabled in usb-serial core. Please post the logs with debugging enabled in both modules to this thread as well. O.K. Nobody has

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: The logs look incomplete. It's probably because they're flooded with serial_write_room and chars_in_buffer messages. Hmmm - i feared that this happens - the logs where to big. Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-16 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 15.04.2013 18:16, schrieb Greg KH: If you can't do the bisection, can you point me at the exact device you are using here so I can buy one and try to track this down? It seems that exact the same adapter is out of stock. But this seems to be nearly exact the same one:

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-15 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi, Am 14.04.2013 16:01, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: please have a look at my last email in the bug report. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Do you have an idea what's maybe the difference that this adapter is

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-15 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hi, Am 14.04.2013 16:01, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: please have a look at my last email in the bug report. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Do

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-14 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 21:12, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200,

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: please have a look at my last email in the bug report. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Do you have an idea what's maybe the difference that this adapter is working with kernel 2.6.32 ? Lots of things

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-03 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 21:12, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200,

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-01 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200,

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-01 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50,

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-01 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 21:12, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200,

Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Where can i address such a bug? How can i debug and help to solve the problem? Best regards Karsten Malcher -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Where can i address such a bug? How can i debug and help to solve the problem? Please

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug:

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug:

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, I have a