[BRLTTY] USB2Serial under Linux

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Aug 6 10:55:35 EDT 2006


Hermann, le Sun 06 Aug 2006 16:48:00 +0200, a écrit :
> do you mean the vendor of the notebook?

No, of the device (the USB2Serial adapter).

> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial
> Port
> 
> The adapter is recognized (Prolific).
> So I suppose it should work;

Not necessarily: it appears because Linux sees it, but that doesn't mean
that it knows how to drive it.

> but why doesn't it?

You need the pl2303 module. Isn't it in
/lib/modules/2.6.something/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.ko ?

Samuel


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