Subject: setserial does not work with USB serial interfaces Package: setserial Version: 2.17-45.3 Severity: important
setserial does not work with USB serial interfaces root@humboldt:/home/dclarke# cat /var/log/messages Mar 17 00:11:21 humboldt kernel: [ 1840.440033] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Mar 17 00:11:21 humboldt kernel: [ 1840.590118] usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303 Mar 17 00:11:21 humboldt kernel: [ 1840.590124] usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 Mar 17 00:11:21 humboldt kernel: [ 1840.590269] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Mar 17 00:11:21 humboldt kernel: [ 1840.593163] pl2303 5-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected Mar 17 00:11:21 humboldt kernel: [ 1840.605200] usb 5-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 root@humboldt:/home/dclarke# ls /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyUSB0 root@humboldt:/home/dclarke# setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument root@humboldt:/home/dclarke# setserial /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 For reference, setserial works and does not work on the following distros: CentOS 5.5 - Setserial does not work (Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument) Debian 5 - Setserial does not work (Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument) Debian 6 - Setserial does not work (Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument) Fedora 13 - Setserial does not work (Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument) Fedora 14 - Setserial works SUSE 11.3 - Setserial works SUSE 11.4 - Setserial works Ubuntu 10.04 - Setserial does not work (Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument) Ubuntu 10.10 - Setserial works -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages setserial depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib setserial recommends no packages. setserial suggests no packages. -- debconf information: setserial/autosave: true setserial/autosave-types: autosave once setserial/update-modules-failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
