Subject: Re: How to use a SIIG USB->RS232 adapter
To: Zach Fine <zach@xdsl014.serv.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/18/2001 21:48:45
Zach Fine wrote:

> I bought a "SIIG USB Plus Serial Adapter" in the hopes that I'd be
> able to use it to connect to my UPS, and also on occasion synchronize
> my palmpilot using the pilot-xfer application. I'm running the generic
> 1.5 kernel at the moment on an i386 machine.
>
> When I disconnect my working USB->ethernet device and connect the
> USB->RS232 device, the following shows up in the log:
>
> aue0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
> ukphy0 detached
> aue0 detached
> uhub2 at uhub0 port 1
> uhub2: MCT Corp. Hub, class 9/1, rev 1.00/1.02, addr 2
> uhub2: 5 ports with 3 removable, bus powered
> uhub2: strange, connected port 4 has no power
> ugen0 at uhub2 port 4
> ugen0: MCT Corporation. USB-232 Interfact Controller, rev 1.00/1.02,
> addr 3
>
> So it should be accessible as /dev/ugen0.03, right?

Wrong.  it's accessible as ugen0.XX, but what XX is and what protocol
it uses is not known (the first can be found from the deviec descriptor,
but not the second).  If you get the specs for the chip used in the adapter
I might be able to write a driver.

    -- Lennart