Difference between revisions of "USB to serial adapter"
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Revision as of 09:03, 8 December 2008
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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)
Contents
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
Installation
$ make linux-menuconfig Device Drivers ---> [*] USB support ---> <M> USB Serial Converter support Device Drivers ---> [*] USB support ---> <M> USB Serial Converter support ---> <M> USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver Device Drivers ---> [*] USB support ---> <M> USB Serial Converter support ---> <M> USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver $ 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
