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Description
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I recently purchased a USB-serial adapter at my local Radio Shack store
(part number 26-183, "6-Ft (1.8m) USB to Serial Cable").
When connected to solaris, it identifies itself as a Prolific USB serial
device:
Oct 20 17:30:45 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb5ad,fba) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: device@1, usb_mid0 at bus address 2
Oct 20 17:30:45 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller
Oct 20 17:30:45 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usb_mid0 is /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/device@1
Oct 20 17:30:45 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/device@1 (usb_mid0) online
But our driver doesn't attach:
Oct 20 17:30:45 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] usba: no driver found for interface 0 (nodename: 'interface') of Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller
Oct 20 17:32:12 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb5ad,fba) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: device@1, usbsprl0 at bus address 2
Oct 20 17:32:12 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller
Oct 20 17:32:12 daniel-jackson.East.Sun.COM genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usbsprl0 is /pci@1e,600000/usb@a/device@1
But I am happy to report that it works on both sparc and x86 after a:
# update-drv -v -a -i usb5ad,fba usbsprl
(I was able to use it to configure two managed ethernet switches through
their serial consoles; one from a V440, the other from an X4200).
So I think we just need to add that id to driver_aliases in a default install..
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