I have a general question on the status of USB to
serial support in FreeBSD (specifically the ucom and
ftdi drivers).
I need an extra serial port on my system and for
reasons outside the scope of this email I can't just
plug in a PCI card. I'm trying to use USB, but it
seems that ucom is broken
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:09 -0700, Paul Marciano wrote:
I have a general question on the status of USB to
serial support in FreeBSD (specifically the ucom and
ftdi drivers).
I need an extra serial port on my system and for
reasons outside the scope of this email I can't just
plug in a PCI
Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So without wanting to offend (whilst secretly being
pretty frustrated with the corner I find myself in) I
would like to know, hopefully from someone responsible
for the subsystem, if ucom/ftdi is likely to be fixed
in the next six months.
You can
Be honest. Be brutal. I need to know where FreeBSD
stands on this.
Personal opinion: You overstate the probelems, and have a bad
attitude.
More details:
I use umodem + ucom all the time for connecting to the internet on my
laptop. I've had exactly 0 problems doing this for the past 4
At 02:59 PM 09/09/2005, Frank Mayhar wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:09 -0700, Paul Marciano wrote:
I have a general question on the status of USB to
serial support in FreeBSD (specifically the ucom and
ftdi drivers).
I need an extra serial port on my system and for
reasons outside the
--- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I've got a handful of such devices that appear
to work just fine.
Now, mine are based on the Prolific PL-2303* chips
but you don't mention
any specific hardware. All I know is that I'm using
them for consoles
(and am running getty on them)
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Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Even to the point that it will be hard for you to
: effect change because people don't take you
: seriously.
:
: I don't want to effect change, I just want a working
: system.
If the system isn't working for
--- M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You asked for honesty, and I'll give you some more:
You are being a jerk and acting like you are
entitled to having your particular
problem fixed without pitching in and helping in
some way.
You're funny... but actually I was only asking for an
On Friday 09 September 2005 16:28, the author M. Warner Losh contributed to
the dialogue on-
Re: Will USB serial ever be fixed?:
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Paul Marciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Even to the point that it will be hard for you to
: effect change because
I have pushed the ucom/uftdi drivers VERY hard over the past couple
weeks, attempting to get more thru-put.
I have had NO problems, other than being unable to get a consistent
one byte thruput every 6.2 uSec. This is a problem of the FreeBSD
scheduler, NOT the USB code.
Kudos to the USB
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