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INTRODUCTION
The USB serial driver currently supports a number of different USB to
serial converter products, as well as some devices that use a serial
interface from userspace to talk to the device.
See the individual product section below for specific information about
the different devices.
CONFIGURATION
Currently the driver can handle up to 256 different serial interfaces at
one time.
If you are not using devfs:
The major number that the driver uses is 188 so to use the driver,
create the following nodes:
mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
mknod /dev/ttyUSB2 c 188 2
mknod /dev/ttyUSB3 c 188 3
.
.
.
mknod /dev/ttyUSB254 c 188 254
mknod /dev/ttyUSB255 c 188 255
If you are using devfs:
The devices supported by this driver will show up as
/dev/usb/tts/{0,1,...}
When the device is connected and recognized by the driver, the driver
will print to the system log, which node(s) the device has been bound
to.
SPECIFIC DEVICES SUPPORTED
ConnectTech WhiteHEAT 4 port converter
ConnectTech has been very forthcoming with information about their
device, including providing a unit to test with. This driver will end up
being fully supported.
Current status:
The device's firmware is downloaded on connection, the new firmware
runs properly and all four ports are successfully recognized and connected.
Data can be sent and received through the device on all ports.
Hardware flow control needs to be implemented.
HandSpring Visor USB docking station
Current status:
Only when the Visor tries to connect to the host, does the docking
station show up as a valid USB device. When this happens, the device is
properly enumerated, assigned a port, and then communication _should_ be
possible. The driver cleans up properly when the device is removed, or
the connection is canceled on the Visor.
NOTE:
This means that in order to talk to the Visor, the sync button must be
pressed BEFORE trying to get any program to communicate to the Visor.
This goes against the current documentation for pilot-xfer and other
packages, but is the only way that it will work due to the hardware
in the Visor.
When the device is connected, try talking to it on the second port
(this is usually /dev/ttyUSB1 if you do not have any other usb-serial
devices in the system.) The system log should tell you which port is
the port to use for the HotSync transfer. The "Generic" port can be used
for other device communication, such as a PPP link.
There is a webpage and mailing lists for this portion of the driver at:
http://usbvisor.sourceforge.net/
Keyspan PDA Serial Adapter
Single port DB-9 serial adapter, pushed as a PDA adapter for iMacs (mostly
sold in Macintosh catalogs, comes in a translucent white/green dongle).
Fairly simple device. Firmware is homebrew.
Current status:
Things that work:
basic input/output (tested with 'cu')
blocking write when serial line can't keep up
changing baud rates (up to 115200)
getting/setting modem control pins (TIOCM{GET,SET,BIS,BIC})
sending break (although duration looks suspect)
Things that don't:
device strings (as logged by kernel) have trailing binary garbage
device ID isn't right, might collide with other Keyspan products
changing baud rates ought to flush tx/rx to avoid mangled half characters
Big Things on the todo list:
parity, 7 vs 8 bits per char, 1 or 2 stop bits
HW flow control
not all of the standard USB descriptors are handled: Get_Status, Set_Feature
O_NONBLOCK, select()
Keyspan USA-series Serial Adapters
Single and Dual port adapters - driver uses Keyspan supplied
firmware and is being developed with their support.
Driver isn't as far advanced as Keyspan PDA driver mentioned above.
Current status:
Things that work:
Firmware upload for USA-18X, USA-28, USA-28X, USA-19 and USA-19W
Simple character I/O fixed at 9600 baud on USA-19 only
Things that don't:
Everything else. (for now...)
Big Things on the todo list:
Driver is in infancy, much functionality remains to be added
FTDI Single Port Serial Driver
This is a single port DB-25 serial adapter. More information about this
device and the Linux driver can be found at:
http://reality.sgi.com/bryder_wellington/ftdi_sio/
ZyXEL omni.net lcd plus ISDN TA
This is an ISDN TA. Please report both successes and troubles to the
author at omninet@kroah.com
Digi AccelePort Driver
This driver supports the Digi AccelePort USB 2 and 4 devices, 2 port
(plus a parallel port) and 4 port USB serial converters. The driver
does NOT yet support the Digi AccelePort USB 8.
The driver is generally working, though we still have a few more ioctls
to implement and final testing and debugging to do. The paralled port
on the USB 2 is supported as a serial to parallel converter; in other
words, it appears as another USB serial port on Linux, even though
physically it is really a parallel port. The Digi Acceleport USB 8
is not yet supported.
Please contact Peter Berger (pberger@brimson.com) or Al Borchers
(alborchers@steinerpoint.com) for questions or problems with this
driver.
Generic Serial driver
If your device is not one of the above listed devices, compatible with
the above models, you can try out the "generic" interface. This
interface does not provide any type of control messages sent to the
device, and does not support any kind of device flow control. All that
is required of your device is that it has at least one bulk in endpoint,
or one bulk out endpoint.
To enable the generic driver to recognize your device, build the driver
as a module and load it by the following invocation:
insmod usb-serial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
where the #### is replaced with the hex representation of your device's
vendor id and product id.
This driver has been successfully used to connect to the NetChip USB
development board, providing a way to develop USB firmware without
having to write a custom driver.
CONTACT:
If anyone has any problems using this driver, with any of the above
specified products, please contact me, or join the Linux-USB mailing
list (information on joining the mailing list, as well as a link to its
searchable archive is at http://www.linux-usb.org/ )
Greg Kroah-Hartman
greg@kroah.com
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