Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Brad Bourn <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just my 2 cents worth.

We have found that the usb->serial doesn't work for the low level 
communication stuff we do here.  You might be ok with a camera, however, I 
would recommend and actual serial port on an add-on card.  Then it should 
just show up in /dev/....

B-)

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 10:51 am, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:26, Sid Boyce wrote:
> > Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> > > Could somebody give me some help in recognizing a USB serial
> > > connection. I am using 9.1 and KDE 3.3.
> >
> > here lsusb says mine is "prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial
> > Port" and  modules usbserial and pl2303 loaded. I haven't tried it
> > hotplugged, so if that doesn't work, try booting with it plugged
> > and see if it works. Regards
>
> Dear Sid.
> Thanks for the info.
> Did a restart and have since then following info with lsusb:
>
> Bus 001 Device 006: ID 08dd:8001 Billionton Systems, Inc.
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303
> Serial Port
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. 4-port Hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> No further info. I know that I have four way hub where my card reader
> and the serial cable are connected to. Think the hub is the Atmel,
> The Billionton is the cardreader so that leaves the serial cable also
> as Prolific Techn.
> Do not get any information that modules usbserial and pl2303 are
> loaded. Did I miss something? usbmodules gave PL2303 though.
> And where and how to mount them?