On Monday 02 February 2004 09:32, Paulo Marques wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 29 January 2004 19:01, Greg KH wrote: >>>On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 06:51:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>It just seems that the pl2303's seriel side/end should respond to >>>>a cts drop right at the end of the currently being sent char, >>>>instead of blindly sending the next x bytes into an overrun flag >>>>on the other end. Does that hardware not have any buffering at >>>>all? Or do we have a real bug in the pl-2303 code? Not having >>>>any data on the chipset in the thing, I've not bothered to walk >>>>thru the code. >>> >>>No one has any data on the chipset. That's the biggest problem >>> with that driver. >> >> Mmmph... I was afraid of that. Has anyone carved it open to see >> whats in it? Mine came from Radio SHack, has only the "USB-Serial > >It has a PL2303 chip in it and probably some max232 compatible chip > to do the RS232 levels. (and probably a small E2PROM to keep > VID/PID, etc.) > >> Cable" molded in on the molding, and has Radio Shack logo's on the >> coinnector moldings. I get the impression its actually a solid >> casting and one would have to grind the plastic away to access >> whats in it. If thats the case, it might as well be truely a >> black (its RS Grey) box. >> >> Is there anybody at Prolific that speaks english? > >If you go to tech.prolific.com.tw after following some links you can > get the file "ds_pl2303_v14.pdf" that as some information on the > chip, although it is not much information, I'm afraid. (I have just > downloaded it, so I'm sure the server is working) > >It also as a "Linux driver" on the download page, that is a driver > written a million years ago by prolific. I think (although I'm not > sure) that the original drivers for Linux were written based on the > one from prolific, but Greg can tell you for sure.
Thank you. The site wasn't responding when I made that post, but is now, albeit intermittently very slow to respond. There are 2 different .pdf's there, one quite new, so I grabbed both. Time to fire up AR and my C82 and see if its in english. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
