USB/Serial Adapter driver

[Charly86]

Hi Everybody

I would like to know if anyone of you has succeded to plug into the readyNas some USB/Serial converters such as one with FTDI or Prolific chipset ?

If not, maybe one of you know how to compile and install theese kind of drivers as kernel module ?

This is really strange I'm the one trying to use this kind of adapters :-).

I already have all needed to compile on my ReadyNas NV+

Thanks

Charles

PS : is there a solution to install real serial port on NAS ?

[neXus1]

Have a look at the ./drivers/usb/serial/pl2303 module

It should be crosscompilable with some tricks

There is a real serial port behing a sticker on the Duo. But I don't know if you can use it (it is for recover, flash over serial tty)

[Charly86]

Thank you for your help, I suceeded to cross compile and generate the drivers for FTDI and PL2303 chip using help of this excellent topic viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17521.

you need also to select generic usbserial on kernel build.

when done, create dir named serial on the ReadyNas and copy the following 3 files

nas:/lib/modules/2.6.17.8ReadyNAS/kernel/drivers/usb/serial# l
total 988
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       271533 mai 15 00:24 ftdi_sio.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       232371 mai 15 00:24 pl2303.ko
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       490721 mai 15 00:24 usbserial.ko
nas:/lib/modules/2.6.17.8ReadyNAS/kernel/drivers/usb/serial#

then insmod begining with usbserial.ko


Charles

[lachris]

hi there,

i found that old post and tried to do the same.
I have a PL2303 adapter here but i dont know how to compile a module from the c source file. i downloaded these out of the kernel sources from kernel.org

how can i compile that module? on the nas? or how do i use the cross-compiler eg on an ubuntu system?

THANKS A LOT