I think the SILABS converter is based on the ftdi chipset. Fanoush on www.internettablettalk.com had released a set of drivers compiled for OS2008.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=101312&postcount=5 insmod the driver, run dmesg | tail to see if the converter got detected. You can talk to the serial chip via /dev/ttyUSB0. On Jan 30, 2008 12:07 PM, Aleksey Yashchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > There was several threads about using N800 USB host mode, and > Sebastian told us that its no problem to use N800 USB with Silabs > Serial converter. > > I need to connect an RS232 device to N800 with OS2008 image uploaded. > > The questions is: > > How should I use this port? > a) will it be available as serial port? (some kind of tty?) where I > should look for drivers? > > b) Should I communicate thru it as thru USB device? Any suggestions on > API, libraries? Or maybe I can just open() some character device from > /dev/ and read/write it? how in this case writed data will be mapped > to serial port's output? > > c) for serial port I need to set up the baud rate, stop bits, etc. how > should I deal with it when device is connected thru USB? > > Thanks for any ideas! > > Best regards, > Aleksey Yashchenko > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -- Homepage: http://www.machinegrid.com :: Robots at Work!!
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