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Revision as of 12:25, 4 February 2009

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This type of adapter allows you to add several serial (RS232) ports to your APF board, through the USB Host interface (only available on DevFull & APF27)

Tested materials

The commercial adapters can be separated in 2 categories, because there are only 2 USB<->serial low cost chipmakers:

  • FTDI one
  • Prolific one (pl23xx)
Adapter Model Chip Status
APF9328 / APF27
Driver Comments
Trendnet TU-S9 pl2303 pl2303
TBDL

Installation

 $ make linux26-menuconfig
 Device Drivers  ---> 
     [*] USB support  --->
         ...
               *** USB port drivers ***
         <M>   USB Serial Converter support
             ...
             <M>   USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver
             <M>   USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver
 $ make linux26 && make

copy following drivers on your target or reflash your rootfs (for more infos, see this page)

drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.ko
drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.ko
drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko

Usage

  • be sure that your USB Host is running on your board: explanations are here
  • plug your USB adapter (here a Prolific one)
usb 1-1: full speed USB device using mxc-ehci and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1: Product: USB-Serial Controller D
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
  • Load the module, for example if you have a Prolific based adapter:
# modprobe pl2303

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
pl2303 1-1.1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
usb 1-1.1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
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  • a new serial device will then appear under /dev/ttyUSBN (N starting at 0 and depending on the number of adapters detected).
Note Note: You can use now this new device like a standard Linux serial port


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