Re: Cisco USB serial console compatiblity?

2021-06-02 Thread Brian Buhrow
Hello. Thank you very much. Indeed the umodem(4) recognized the device, but I missed the dmesg output. thanks for the tip. -Brian

Re: Cisco USB serial console compatiblity?

2021-06-02 Thread Michael van Elst
buh...@nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) writes: > hello. Does anyone know what USB serial chip the Cisco USB serial > console is closest to >in our USB serial drivers list? the vendor code for the device I'm talking >about is: 0x05a6 >and the product code is: 0x0009. The umodem(4) driver is fo

Re: Devices.

2021-06-02 Thread David Holland
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 10:08:55AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > hello David. What I don't see in your proposal is a way of > implementing a dynamic device filesystem. As I already posted about once, that's irrelevant to what I'm proposing. A working devfs that can be used in all places wh

Cisco USB serial console compatiblity?

2021-06-02 Thread Brian Buhrow
hello. Does anyone know what USB serial chip the Cisco USB serial console is closest to in our USB serial drivers list? the vendor code for the device I'm talking about is: 0x05a6 and the product code is: 0x0009. It doesn't look like we have a driver that recognizes these codes, but I

Re: Devices.

2021-06-02 Thread Michael van Elst
wo...@planix.ca ("Greg A. Woods") writes: >My understanding w.r.t. the rationale FreeBSD used in deciding to remove >the block devices was that FreeBSD never really buffered/cached by >device in the first place. Also, according to PHK in his 2002 BSDCan >paper about FreeBSD's /dev, "In FreeBSD bl