USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 19:54:44 Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> > > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something
> > > like that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial
> > > port, which, alas, isn't wired to the outside of the case).
> >
> > Looking at ucom(4):
> >
> > FILES
> >      /dev/cuaU?
> >
> > See if that exists.
> 
> No such luck I'm afraid. There's only cuaU0, which belongs to the 
> onboard serial port too.

Does the onboard serial port work via USB? How odd! On my standard PC,
the serial ports are driven by the sio driver, and have /dev/cuad* and
/dev/ttyd* devices, noc cuaU. 

Do you have the correct driver for the converter loaded next to ucom?
The ucom manual page gives a list of them.

Roland
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