Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2014-01-15 Thread Johan Hovold
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:01:30AM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello together, > > i will close this bug at Debian now. > > After the last update this error seems to disappear in Debian stable. > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ChangeLog > USB: pl2303: fix device initialisation at o

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2014-01-13 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello together, i will close this bug at Debian now. After the last update this error seems to disappear in Debian stable. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ChangeLog USB: pl2303: fix device initialisation at open The source for this patch can be found here: http://www.spinics.net/lists

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-16 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 15.12.2013 18:05, schrieb Greg KH: Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have been hopefully fixed since June when you last looked. greg k-h no at this time i have not tested it - sorry. Although i am fascinated from your work i personally prefer to use stable rele

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-15 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:32:33AM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Am 14.12.2013 18:08, schrieb Greg KH: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >> Hello together, > >> > >> is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? > >> It would be fine if it could w

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-15 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 14.12.2013 18:08, schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have b

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello together, > > is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? > It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have been hopefully fixed since June when you last l

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-13 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Of course for Linux there are good alternatives. Here is a new one with the CP2102 suffering easy supply voltage: http://www.ebay.de/itm/110954294607 Best regards Karsten Am 24.06.201

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 25.06.2013 19:29, schrieb Johan Hovold: Maybe Aric can explain it better? I only see several problems to use a PL-2303 HX with newer kernels. Just to be clear, that's your setup. AFAICT Aric never got his setup to work with any kernel (but for a brief period with the same 3.0 kernel). The

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Johan Hovold
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:12:28PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 25.06.2013 18:54, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >> Hello Greg, > >> > >> have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? > >> > >> Yesterday i got this interes

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 25.06.2013 18:54, schrieb Johan Hovold: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a similar problem with this chip. Why do you think t

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Johan Hovold
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? > > Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a > similar problem with this chip. Why do you think that this is related to the problem

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Greg KH: Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mistake, I am willing to donate the hardware to an able kernel hacker :-) Yes, I recommend the ftdi devices a

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 20:56, schrieb Greg KH: But wiring that up to a "real" 9pin serial port would be a pain (doable, but a pain). Is there any devices out there with a DB-9 output connector? You mean if you want to test full handshake with all signals - that's true. Which is what the dr

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:37:59PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 24.06.2013 20:18, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Hello Greg, > >> > >>Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: > >>>On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Aric Fedida wrote: > I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to > the post office to send it. I'll send it off-list, thanks. > Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to > FTDI instead. But for the sake of

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 20:18, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Hello Greg, > >> > >>have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? > >No, I have not been able t

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 18:38, schrieb Aric Fedida: I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mista

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one. Does anyone know where I can purchase one? Just take this one: http://

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Aric Fedida
I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mistake, I am willing to donate the hardware to a

Bug#704242: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one. Does anyone know where I can purchase one? > Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a > simi

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-05-03 Thread Bob Bib
control: tags -1 - moreinfo Hi, sorry for a late reply. > The question is what is the difference between 2.6.32 and 3.2.0? Well, as for now, Squeeze main repositories contain Linux 2.6.32, and Wheezy has Linux 3.2.41. You can look at the Debian 'linux-2.6' & 'linux' source packages; kernel.org u

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-20 Thread Johan Hovold
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 09:50:52AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 19.04.2013 16:39, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > > >>> Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are > >>> being read back in the log you provided. > >> Stop - it's really possible that i send not enough byte

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:26:48PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hi Johan, > Am 19.04.2013 11:04, schrieb Johan Hovold: > >> This was a log with lost data. > >> The logs seems to make politics. ;-) > > Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are > > being read back in

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi Johan, Am 19.04.2013 11:04, schrieb Johan Hovold: This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are being read back in the log you provided. Stop - it's really possible that i send not enough bytes. S

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:36:57AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 18.04.2013 12:56, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > > > Can you generate a log where bytes are actually lost? Nothing seemed to > > get lost in the previous log you posted. > > This was a log with lost data. > The logs seems to make pol

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:25:19AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 18.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: > >> I have used a little perl program that opens the port and send "Test" > >> to the looped back device. > >> The length of the log looks good. > > Great. Now I can see what's going on. T

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 18.04.2013 12:56, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you generate a log where bytes are actually lost? Nothing seemed to get lost in the previous log you posted. This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) How can i enable the debugging in kernel 3.8.5? Make sure debugfs i

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 18.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: I have used a little perl program that opens the port and send "Test" to the looped back device. The length of the log looks good. Great. Now I can see what's going on. The only problem (?) is that everything seems to be working. The write succeeds and

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Johan Hovold
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:36:17PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses > > dynamic debugging? > > I have compiled a 3.8.5 kernel now on Debian testing (wheezy). > The result is the same

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses dynamic debugging? I have compiled a 3.8.5 kernel now on Debian testing (wheezy). The result is the same as in 3.2.0 ! I could receive only some of the first bytes after opening the

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:43:11PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > Can you minimise your test setup using a custom program which only opens > > the device, initialises it, writes the four characters (e.g. "test") > > and reads them back (over you hardw

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: The logs look incomplete. It's probably because they're flooded with serial_write_room and chars_in_buffer messages. Hmmm - i feared that this happens - the logs where to big. Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses dyn

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 17.04.2013 13:31, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > The logs there appear not to have debugging enabled in usb-serial core. > > Please post the logs with debugging enabled in both modules to this > > thread as well. > > O.K. Nobody has

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-14 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi, Hi, Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 9:43 +02:00 from Karsten Malcher : Very strange. As i have written i have an old mobile adapter with PL2303 H that's running without no problem in Linux. I suppose it's a genuine one :) It seems so. There are adapters with HL-340 chip (ID 1a86:7523), that are run

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-13 Thread Bob Bib
Hi, Fri, 12 Apr 2013, 9:43 +02:00 from Karsten Malcher : > Very strange. > As i have written i have an old mobile adapter with PL2303 H that's running > without no problem in Linux. I suppose it's a genuine one :) > There are adapters with HL-340 chip (ID 1a86:7523), that are running without >

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-12 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi Bob, Looks strange enough. As for me, one fake PL-2303-clone adapter I have works (equally bad) in Linux& Windows (and only old patched Windows drivers recognize it). Very strange. As i have written i have an old mobile adapter with PL2303 H that's running without no problem in Linux. T

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-11 Thread Bob Bib
Thu, 11 Apr 2013, 14:43 +02:00 from Karsten Malcher : > Am 04.04.2013 20:04, schrieb Bob Bib: > > Is it working OK with other systems? Have you checked if it works under MS > Windows with the latest driver? > > Yes - it is working with the latest windows driver. > ... > But the interesting questi

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-04 Thread Bob Bib
Hi, Karsten Malcher: > i have the problem that i have nearly no serial communication > with a USB-Serial-Adapter type PL-2303 HX. Is it working OK with other systems? Have you checked if it works under MS Windows with the latest driver? Maybe it's just a wiring / connection problem. BTW, is it a

Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-30 Thread Karsten Malcher
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.23-1 Severity: important Hello, i have the problem that i have nearly no serial communication with a USB-Serial-Adapter type PL-2303 HX. The interesting point is that i have an older adapter and this is working without problems. When you use the check tool of