[PLUG] USB serial support

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 9 17:30:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Bill Barry wrote:

> That last line for ID 0b39:0421 is the device id for the usb to serial
> adapter produced by Omnidirectional Control Technology Inc.
> http://www.octinc.com.tw/products/usb_to_serial.html

  Thanks, Bill! I knew the last line referred to the converter but have no
clue how to track it to its source.

> looking through the kernel, this device is supported by the ftdi_sio
> driver http://ftdi-usb-sio.sourceforge.net/ I don't know if you have to
> explicity load this module or if usbserial loads it for you, but you might
> try modprobe ftdi_sio

  Yup. That loaded it, but there's still no light on the adapter nor a
recognition of /dev/photopc as either /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 (both of
which now have 666 perms).

Thanks,

Rich

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