umodem0, Cisco USB serial console, and quirks

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Fri Nov 2 08:46:09 UTC 2018


On 11/2/18 1:01 AM, Mike Andrews wrote:
> On 11/1/18 4:59 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> 
>> On 27.09.2017 05:11, Mike Andrews wrote:
>>>> This is the USB read transfer. The other side is not returning any
>>>> data, so neither is "cu" printing anything. Maybe you can try to get a
>>>> similar trace from the system where it works?
>>>>
>>>> Looks to me like some kind of protocol error, that the Cisco USB
>>>> serial console needs some kind of activation.
>>> Took me a few days to get around to getting usbmon going on Linux.  The
>>> verbose dump is too large for the list, so:
>>>
>>>     https://www.bit0.com/tmp/usbmon-ciscoasa-verbose.txt
>>>     https://www.bit0.com/tmp/usbmon-ciscoasa.txt
>> Hi,
>>
>> did you find some solution? It seems this device still doesn't work with
>> recent FreeBSD.
>> I found how it should work on linux:
>> https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-architecture-documents/cisco-console-connection-via-usb-serial/ta-p/3163540 
>>
>>
>> And it seems in Linux it is handled by generic CDC ACM driver without
>> any quirks. So, I think the problem is with our umodem(4) or ucom(4)
>> driver.
>>
> No, I didn't.
> 
> The usbmon dumps above are still there, and if someone can suggest 
> anything else I can do to help, lemme know.
> 

Hi,

Are there any errors printed in dmesg for this device?

What does "usbconfig -d X.Y dump_device_desc dump_curr_config_desc" 
where X.Y are numbers after ugenX.Y, output?

--HPS


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