I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack earlier this year. The updated pl2303 driver is already in the mainstream kernel as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. So every time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm.
I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to solve... I've already had to switch one of my boxes over to plus today given that the video4linux srpm (from atrpms) won't rebuild easily on 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5, and I'm thinking that having both on plus with everything I need in them would make it a lot easier...
(There's already precedent here... I found linux-2.6.18-bz443853_powernow_null_deref.patch and linux-2.6.18-bz444759_hi_iowait.patch in the srpm...)
Thanks for reading...
-I
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:45:39PM -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack earlier this year. The updated pl2303 driver is already in the mainstream kernel as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. So every time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm.
I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to solve... I've already had to switch one of my boxes over to plus today given that the video4linux srpm (from atrpms) won't rebuild easily on 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5, and I'm thinking that having both on plus with everything I need in them would make it a lot easier...
(There's already precedent here... I found linux-2.6.18-bz443853_powernow_null_deref.patch and linux-2.6.18-bz444759_hi_iowait.patch in the srpm...)
Thanks for reading...
I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned, you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer... probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around forever ignored. :)
Ray
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned, you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer... probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around forever ignored. :)
Heh - I figured 5 months was long enough, even though there are bugs that have languished for years in upstream's bugzilla... But yes - for it to get any traction, I would need to be a paying customer... that's why I figured I'd try their route first, then plus... failing that, I'd have to look at getting a kmod rpm for pl2303 into either plus or atrpms...
(FWIW, it wasn't easy getting stuff into upstream when I worked for them either... it takes time...)
-I
On Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Ian Forde wrote:
I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack earlier this year. The updated pl2303 driver is already in the mainstream kernel as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. So every time there's an updated kernel, I have to rebuild the srpm.
Seems like it would be simpler to get an adapter that work with the current/native pl2303 driver.
For the purpose of serial consoles, these two adapters work for me under pl2303 without any problems using current/past CentOS5 kernels:
Tripp-Lite U209-000-R: http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430
Cables-To-Go 26886: http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5fid=101&sku=26886
Think they cost about US$15 each at provantage.com.
# uname -rpmi 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
# lsmod|grep pl2303
# # Inserted serial-to-USB adapter
# lsusb|grep Tripp-Lite Bus 002 Device 004: ID 2478:2008 Tripp-Lite U209-000-R Serial Port
# lsmod|grep pl2303 pl2303 53317 0 usbserial 67505 1 pl2303
Steve
S.Tindall wrote:
Tripp-Lite U209-000-R: http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430
Cables-To-Go 26886: http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5fid=101&sku=26886
Think they cost about US$15 each at provantage.com.
I've been using these with zero issues ( 14 of them connected to one machine ):
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for ark3116 ark3116 1-1:1.0: ark3116 converter detected usb 1-1: ark3116 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
about £3/each, totally unbranded from Tottenham Court Road, London :D
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:39 -0400, S.Tindall wrote:
Seems like it would be simpler to get an adapter that work with the current/native pl2303 driver.
Yeah... but mine works - with some extra work... didn't want to buy this type of device twice but...
For the purpose of serial consoles, these two adapters work for me under pl2303 without any problems using current/past CentOS5 kernels:
Tripp-Lite U209-000-R: http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=2430
Just ordered one online, just in case. Thanks!
-I
Ian Forde wrote:
I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to solve...
open a request at http://bugs.centos.org/ - thats the *only* way to get stuff into centos_plus, and if there is a patch or a proposed src.rpm for new pkgs, things go faster.
- KB
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 00:54 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ian Forde wrote:
I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to solve...
open a request at http://bugs.centos.org/ - thats the *only* way to get stuff into centos_plus, and if there is a patch or a proposed src.rpm for new pkgs, things go faster.
Thanks! Okay - it's done - ticket number is 2954 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2954)
-I
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