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From:
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...>
To: Stephan Rose <stephan@...>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...>
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Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 8:52 am
On 02/14/2008 03:57 PM, Stephan Rose wrote:
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> I recently purchased a USB->Com Port serial cable from Radio Shack > (Model number 26-183) which did no seem to want to work. After looking > into it I discovered that it is based on the Prolific chipset using the > PL2303 driver. > > I then checked the Vendor and Product ID against the list in the drive > and sure enough, the IDs were missing in the driver. > > So here are my modifications to the PL2303 driver which have been > working flawlessly on my system the whole week: > > drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h > -------- > > /* Radio Shack 26-183 */ > #define RADIOSHACK26183_VENDOR_ID 0x05ad > #define RADIOSHACK26183_PRODUCT_ID 0x0fba > > drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c > -------- > > Added to struct usb_device_id id_table > > { USB_DEVICE(RADIOSHACK26183_VENDOR_ID RADIOSHACK26183_PRODUCT_ID) } > > I still have to manually modprobe the module as the kernel won't > automatically load it when I connect the device, no idea what I would > need to change where for that to happen. > > The above though does successfully add support for that serial cable so > I thought I'd share it with the kernel list so that it can possibly be > added to the kernel and I can stop having to re-compile the driver every > kernel update. :)
Well, would you mind creating, testing and posting a patch? --
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PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
, Stephan Rose
, (Thu Feb 14, 10:57 am)
Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
, Jiri Slaby
, (Sat Feb 16, 8:52 am)
Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
, David Newall
, (Sat Feb 16, 9:05 am)
Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
, Greg KH
, (Mon Feb 18, 1:06 am)
Re: PL2303 Driver missing support for USB to Serial Cable
, Stephan Rose
, (Wed Feb 20, 10:46 am)
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