[linux-2.6-block.git] / Documentation / usb / usb-serial.txt

INTRODUCTION

  The USB serial driver currently supports a number of different USB to
  serial converter products, as well as some devices that use a serial
  interface from userspace to talk to the device.

  See the individual product section below for specific information about
  the different devices.


CONFIGURATION

  Currently the driver can handle up to 256 different serial interfaces at
  one time. 

    The major number that the driver uses is 188 so to use the driver,
    create the following nodes:
	mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
	mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
	mknod /dev/ttyUSB2 c 188 2
	mknod /dev/ttyUSB3 c 188 3
		.
		.
		.
	mknod /dev/ttyUSB254 c 188 254
	mknod /dev/ttyUSB255 c 188 255

  When the device is connected and recognized by the driver, the driver
  will print to the system log, which node(s) the device has been bound
  to.
  

SPECIFIC DEVICES SUPPORTED


ConnectTech WhiteHEAT 4 port converter

  ConnectTech has been very forthcoming with information about their
  device, including providing a unit to test with.

  The driver is officially supported by Connect Tech Inc.
  http://www.connecttech.com

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact
  Connect Tech's Support Department at support@connecttech.com


HandSpring Visor, Palm USB, and Clié USB driver

  This driver works with all HandSpring USB, Palm USB, and Sony Clié USB
  devices.

  Only when the device tries to connect to the host, will the device show
  up to the host as a valid USB device. When this happens, the device is
  properly enumerated, assigned a port, and then communication _should_ be
  possible. The driver cleans up properly when the device is removed, or
  the connection is canceled on the device.

  NOTE:
    This means that in order to talk to the device, the sync button must be
    pressed BEFORE trying to get any program to communicate to the device.
    This goes against the current documentation for pilot-xfer and other
    packages, but is the only way that it will work due to the hardware
    in the device.
  
  When the device is connected, try talking to it on the second port
  (this is usually /dev/ttyUSB1 if you do not have any other usb-serial
  devices in the system.) The system log should tell you which port is
  the port to use for the HotSync transfer. The "Generic" port can be used
  for other device communication, such as a PPP link.

  For some Sony Clié devices, /dev/ttyUSB0 must be used to talk to the
  device.  This is true for all OS version 3.5 devices, and most devices
  that have had a flash upgrade to a newer version of the OS.  See the
  kernel system log for information on which is the correct port to use.

  If after pressing the sync button, nothing shows up in the system log,
  try resetting the device, first a hot reset, and then a cold reset if
  necessary.  Some devices need this before they can talk to the USB port
  properly.
  
  Devices that are not compiled into the kernel can be specified with module
  parameters.  e.g. modprobe visor vendor=0x54c product=0x66
  
  There is a webpage and mailing lists for this portion of the driver at:
  http://usbvisor.sourceforge.net/

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
  Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com


PocketPC PDA Driver

  This driver can be used to connect to Compaq iPAQ, HP Jornada, Casio EM500
  and other PDAs running Windows CE 3.0 or PocketPC 2002 using a USB
  cable/cradle.
  Most devices supported by ActiveSync are supported out of the box.
  For others, please use module parameters to specify the product and vendor
  id. e.g. modprobe ipaq vendor=0x3f0 product=0x1125

  The driver presents a serial interface (usually on /dev/ttyUSB0) over
  which one may run ppp and establish a TCP/IP link to the PDA. Once this
  is done, you can transfer files, backup, download email etc. The most
  significant advantage of using USB is speed - I can get 73 to 113
  kbytes/sec for download/upload to my iPAQ.

  This driver is only one of a set of components required to utilize
  the USB connection. Please visit http://synce.sourceforge.net which
  contains the necessary packages and a simple step-by-step howto.

  Once connected, you can use Win CE programs like ftpView, Pocket Outlook
  from the PDA and xcerdisp, synce utilities from the Linux side.

  To use Pocket IE, follow the instructions given at
  http://www.tekguru.co.uk/EM500/usbtonet.htm to achieve the same thing
  on Win98. Omit the proxy server part; Linux is quite capable of forwarding
  packets unlike Win98. Another modification is required at least for the
  iPAQ - disable autosync by going to the Start/Settings/Connections menu
  and unchecking the "Automatically synchronize ..." box. Go to
  Start/Programs/Connections, connect the cable and select "usbdial" (or
  whatever you named your new USB connection). You should finally wind
  up with a "Connected to usbdial" window with status shown as connected.
  Now start up PIE and browse away.

  If it doesn't work for some reason, load both the usbserial and ipaq module
  with the module parameter "debug" set to 1 and examine the system log.
  You can also try soft-resetting your PDA before attempting a connection.

  Other functionality may be possible depending on your PDA. According to
  Wes Cilldhaire <billybobjoehenrybob@hotmail.com>, with the Toshiba E570,
  ...if you boot into the bootloader (hold down the power when hitting the
  reset button, continuing to hold onto the power until the bootloader screen
  is displayed), then put it in the cradle with the ipaq driver loaded, open
  a terminal on /dev/ttyUSB0, it gives you a "USB Reflash" terminal, which can
  be used to flash the ROM, as well as the microP code..  so much for needing
  Toshiba's $350 serial cable for flashing!! :D
  NOTE: This has NOT been tested. Use at your own risk.
 
  For any questions or problems with the driver, please contact Ganesh
  Varadarajan <ganesh@veritas.com>


Keyspan PDA Serial Adapter

  Single port DB-9 serial adapter, pushed as a PDA adapter for iMacs (mostly
  sold in Macintosh catalogs, comes in a translucent white/green dongle).
  Fairly simple device. Firmware is homebrew.
  This driver also works for the Xircom/Entrgra single port serial adapter.

  Current status:
   Things that work:
     basic input/output (tested with 'cu')
     blocking write when serial line can't keep up
     changing baud rates (up to 115200)
     getting/setting modem control pins (TIOCM{GET,SET,BIS,BIC})
     sending break (although duration looks suspect)
   Things that don't:
     device strings (as logged by kernel) have trailing binary garbage
     device ID isn't right, might collide with other Keyspan products
     changing baud rates ought to flush tx/rx to avoid mangled half characters
   Big Things on the todo list:
     parity, 7 vs 8 bits per char, 1 or 2 stop bits
     HW flow control
     not all of the standard USB descriptors are handled: Get_Status, Set_Feature
     O_NONBLOCK, select()

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Brian
  Warner at warner@lothar.com 


Keyspan USA-series Serial Adapters

  Single, Dual and Quad port adapters - driver uses Keyspan supplied 
  firmware and is being developed with their support.
  
  Current status:
    The USA-18X, USA-28X, USA-19, USA-19W and USA-49W are supported and
    have been pretty thoroughly tested at various baud rates with 8-N-1
    character settings.  Other character lengths and parity setups are
    presently untested.

    The USA-28 isn't yet supported though doing so should be pretty
    straightforward.  Contact the maintainer if you require this
    functionality.
  
  More information is available at:
        http://misc.nu/hugh/keyspan.html
   
  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Hugh
  Blemings at hugh@misc.nu


FTDI Single Port Serial Driver

  This is a single port DB-25 serial adapter.

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Bill Ryder.


ZyXEL omni.net lcd plus ISDN TA

  This is an ISDN TA. Please report both successes and troubles to
  azummo@towertech.it


Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver

  This driver was in most part developed by Neil "koyama" Whelchel.  It
  has been improved since that previous form to support dynamic serial
  line settings and improved line handling.  The driver is for the most
  part stable and has been tested on an smp machine. (dual p2)

    Chipsets supported under CY4601 family:
	
		CY7C63723, CY7C63742, CY7C63743, CY7C64013

    Devices supported:

		-DeLorme's USB Earthmate (SiRF Star II lp arch)
		-Cypress HID->COM RS232 adapter
	
		Note: Cypress Semiconductor claims no affiliation with the
			hid->com device.

	Most devices using chipsets under the CY4601 family should
     work with the driver.  As long as they stay true to the CY4601
     usbserial specification.

    Technical notes:

        The Earthmate starts out at 4800 8N1 by default... the driver will
	upon start init to this setting.  usbserial core provides the rest
	of the termios settings, along with some custom termios so that the
	output is in proper format and parsable.
	
	The device can be put into sirf mode by issuing NMEA command:
		$PSRF100,<protocol>,<baud>,<databits>,<stopbits>,<parity>*CHECKSUM
		$PSRF100,0,9600,8,1,0*0C

		It should then be sufficient to change the port termios to match this
		to begin communicating.

	As far as I can tell it supports pretty much every sirf command as
	documented online available with firmware 2.31, with some unknown
	message ids.

	The hid->com adapter can run at a maximum baud of 115200bps.  Please note
	that the device has trouble or is incapable of raising line voltage properly.
	It will be fine with null modem links, as long as you do not try to link two
	together without hacking the adapter to set the line high.

	The driver is smp safe.  Performance with the driver is rather low when using
	it for transferring files.  This is being worked on, but I would be willing to
	accept patches.  An urb queue or packet buffer would likely fit the bill here.

	If you have any questions, problems, patches, feature requests, etc. you can
	contact me here via email:
					dignome@gmail.com
		(your problems/patches can alternately be submitted to usb-devel)


Digi AccelePort Driver

  This driver supports the Digi AccelePort USB 2 and 4 devices, 2 port
  (plus a parallel port) and 4 port USB serial converters.  The driver
  does NOT yet support the Digi AccelePort USB 8.

  This driver works under SMP with the usb-uhci driver.  It does not
  work under SMP with the uhci driver.

  The driver is generally working, though we still have a few more ioctls
  to implement and final testing and debugging to do.  The parallel port
  on the USB 2 is supported as a serial to parallel converter; in other
  words, it appears as another USB serial port on Linux, even though
  physically it is really a parallel port.  The Digi Acceleport USB 8
  is not yet supported.

  Please contact Peter Berger (pberger@brimson.com) or Al Borchers
  (alborchers@steinerpoint.com) for questions or problems with this
  driver.


Belkin USB Serial Adapter F5U103

  Single port DB-9/PS-2 serial adapter from Belkin with firmware by eTEK Labs.
  The Peracom single port serial adapter also works with this driver, as
  well as the GoHubs adapter.

  Current status:
    The following have been tested and work:
      Baud rate    300-230400               
      Data bits    5-8
      Stop bits    1-2
      Parity       N,E,O,M,S
      Handshake    None, Software (XON/XOFF), Hardware (CTSRTS,CTSDTR)*
      Break        Set and clear
      Line control Input/Output query and control **

      *  Hardware input flow control is only enabled for firmware
         levels above 2.06.  Read source code comments describing Belkin
         firmware errata.  Hardware output flow control is working for all
         firmware versions.
      ** Queries of inputs (CTS,DSR,CD,RI) show the last
         reported state.  Queries of outputs (DTR,RTS) show the last
         requested state and may not reflect current state as set by
         automatic hardware flow control.

  TO DO List:
    -- Add true modem control line query capability.  Currently tracks the
       states reported by the interrupt and the states requested.
    -- Add error reporting back to application for UART error conditions.
    -- Add support for flush ioctls.
    -- Add everything else that is missing :)

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact William
  Greathouse at wgreathouse@smva.com


Empeg empeg-car Mark I/II Driver

  This is an experimental driver to provide connectivity support for the
  client synchronization tools for an Empeg empeg-car mp3 player.

  Tips:
    * Don't forget to create the device nodes for ttyUSB{0,1,2,...}
    * modprobe empeg (modprobe is your friend)
    * emptool --usb /dev/ttyUSB0 (or whatever you named your device node)

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Gary
  Brubaker at xavyer@ix.netcom.com


MCT USB Single Port Serial Adapter U232

  This driver is for the MCT USB-RS232 Converter (25 pin, Model No.
  U232-P25) from Magic Control Technology Corp. (there is also a 9 pin
  Model No. U232-P9). More information about this device can be found at
  the manufacturer's web-site: http://www.mct.com.tw.

  The driver is generally working, though it still needs some more testing.
  It is derived from the Belkin USB Serial Adapter F5U103 driver and its
  TODO list is valid for this driver as well.

  This driver has also been found to work for other products, which have
  the same Vendor ID but different Product IDs. Sitecom's U232-P25 serial
  converter uses Product ID 0x230 and Vendor ID 0x711 and works with this
  driver. Also, D-Link's DU-H3SP USB BAY also works with this driver.

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Wolfgang
  Grandegger at wolfgang@ces.ch


Inside Out Networks Edgeport Driver

  This driver supports all devices made by Inside Out Networks, specifically
  the following models:
       Edgeport/4
       Rapidport/4
       Edgeport/4t
       Edgeport/2
       Edgeport/4i
       Edgeport/2i
       Edgeport/421
       Edgeport/21
       Edgeport/8
       Edgeport/8 Dual
       Edgeport/2D8
       Edgeport/4D8
       Edgeport/8i
       Edgeport/2 DIN
       Edgeport/4 DIN
       Edgeport/16 Dual

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
  Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com


REINER SCT cyberJack pinpad/e-com USB chipcard reader
   
  Interface to ISO 7816 compatible contactbased chipcards, e.g. GSM SIMs.
  
  Current status:
    This is the kernel part of the driver for this USB card reader.
    There is also a user part for a CT-API driver available. A site
    for downloading is TBA. For now, you can request it from the
    maintainer (linux-usb@sii.li).

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact
  linux-usb@sii.li


Prolific PL2303 Driver

  This driver supports any device that has the PL2303 chip from Prolific
  in it.  This includes a number of single port USB to serial
  converters and USB GPS devices.  Devices from Aten (the UC-232) and
  IO-Data work with this driver, as does the DCU-11 mobile-phone cable.

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
  Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com
  

KL5KUSB105 chipset / PalmConnect USB single-port adapter
  
Current status:
  The driver was put together by looking at the usb bus transactions
  done by Palm's driver under Windows, so a lot of functionality is
  still missing.  Notably, serial ioctls are sometimes faked or not yet
  implemented.  Support for finding out about DSR and CTS line status is
  however implemented (though not nicely), so your favorite autopilot(1)
  and pilot-manager -daemon calls will work.  Baud rates up to 115200
  are supported, but handshaking (software or hardware) is not, which is
  why it is wise to cut down on the rate used is wise for large
  transfers until this is settled.
  
Options supported:
  If this driver is compiled as a module you can pass the following
  options to it:
  debug			- extra verbose debugging info
  			  (default: 0; nonzero enables)
  use_lowlatency	- use low_latency flag to speed up tty layer
			  when reading from the device.
			  (default: 0; nonzero enables)

  See http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/palmconnect.html for up-to-date
  information on this driver.

Winchiphead CH341 Driver

  This driver is for the Winchiphead CH341 USB-RS232 Converter. This chip
  also implements an IEEE 1284 parallel port, I2C and SPI, but that is not
  supported by the driver. The protocol was analyzed from the behaviour
  of the Windows driver, no datasheet is available at present.
  The manufacturer's website: http://www.winchiphead.com/.
  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact
  frank@kingswood-consulting.co.uk.


Generic Serial driver

  If your device is not one of the above listed devices, compatible with
  the above models, you can try out the "generic" interface. This
  interface does not provide any type of control messages sent to the
  device, and does not support any kind of device flow control. All that
  is required of your device is that it has at least one bulk in endpoint,
  or one bulk out endpoint. 
  
  To enable the generic driver to recognize your device, build the driver
  as a module and load it by the following invocation:
	insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
  where the #### is replaced with the hex representation of your device's
  vendor id and product id.

  This driver has been successfully used to connect to the NetChip USB
  development board, providing a way to develop USB firmware without
  having to write a custom driver.

  For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
  Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com


CONTACT:

  If anyone has any problems using these drivers, with any of the above
  specified products, please contact the specific driver's author listed
  above, or join the Linux-USB mailing list (information on joining the
  mailing list, as well as a link to its searchable archive is at
  http://www.linux-usb.org/ )


Greg Kroah-Hartman
greg@kroah.com
Commit	Line	Data
1da177e4 LT	1	INTRODUCTION
	2
	3	The USB serial driver currently supports a number of different USB to
	4	serial converter products, as well as some devices that use a serial
	5	interface from userspace to talk to the device.
	6
	7	See the individual product section below for specific information about
	8	the different devices.
	9
	10
	11	CONFIGURATION
	12
	13	Currently the driver can handle up to 256 different serial interfaces at
	14	one time.
	15
1da177e4 LT	16	The major number that the driver uses is 188 so to use the driver,
	17	create the following nodes:
	18	mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
	19	mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
	20	mknod /dev/ttyUSB2 c 188 2
	21	mknod /dev/ttyUSB3 c 188 3
	22	.
	23	.
	24	.
	25	mknod /dev/ttyUSB254 c 188 254
	26	mknod /dev/ttyUSB255 c 188 255
	27
1da177e4 LT	28	When the device is connected and recognized by the driver, the driver
	29	will print to the system log, which node(s) the device has been bound
	30	to.
	31
	32
	33	SPECIFIC DEVICES SUPPORTED
	34
	35
	36	ConnectTech WhiteHEAT 4 port converter
	37
	38	ConnectTech has been very forthcoming with information about their
	39	device, including providing a unit to test with.
	40
	41	The driver is officially supported by Connect Tech Inc.
	42	http://www.connecttech.com
	43
	44	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact
8bc84930	45	Connect Tech's Support Department at support@connecttech.com
1da177e4 LT	46
1da177e4 LT	47
be2a608b	48	HandSpring Visor, Palm USB, and Clié USB driver
1da177e4	49
be2a608b	50	This driver works with all HandSpring USB, Palm USB, and Sony Clié USB
1da177e4 LT	51	devices.
	52
	53	Only when the device tries to connect to the host, will the device show
	54	up to the host as a valid USB device. When this happens, the device is
	55	properly enumerated, assigned a port, and then communication _should_ be
	56	possible. The driver cleans up properly when the device is removed, or
	57	the connection is canceled on the device.
	58
	59	NOTE:
	60	This means that in order to talk to the device, the sync button must be
	61	pressed BEFORE trying to get any program to communicate to the device.
	62	This goes against the current documentation for pilot-xfer and other
	63	packages, but is the only way that it will work due to the hardware
	64	in the device.
	65
	66	When the device is connected, try talking to it on the second port
	67	(this is usually /dev/ttyUSB1 if you do not have any other usb-serial
	68	devices in the system.) The system log should tell you which port is
	69	the port to use for the HotSync transfer. The "Generic" port can be used
	70	for other device communication, such as a PPP link.
	71
be2a608b	72	For some Sony Clié devices, /dev/ttyUSB0 must be used to talk to the
1da177e4 LT	73	device. This is true for all OS version 3.5 devices, and most devices
	74	that have had a flash upgrade to a newer version of the OS. See the
	75	kernel system log for information on which is the correct port to use.
	76
	77	If after pressing the sync button, nothing shows up in the system log,
	78	try resetting the device, first a hot reset, and then a cold reset if
	79	necessary. Some devices need this before they can talk to the USB port
	80	properly.
	81
	82	Devices that are not compiled into the kernel can be specified with module
	83	parameters. e.g. modprobe visor vendor=0x54c product=0x66
	84
	85	There is a webpage and mailing lists for this portion of the driver at:
	86	http://usbvisor.sourceforge.net/
	87
	88	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
	89	Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com
	90
	91
	92	PocketPC PDA Driver
	93
	94	This driver can be used to connect to Compaq iPAQ, HP Jornada, Casio EM500
	95	and other PDAs running Windows CE 3.0 or PocketPC 2002 using a USB
	96	cable/cradle.
	97	Most devices supported by ActiveSync are supported out of the box.
	98	For others, please use module parameters to specify the product and vendor
	99	id. e.g. modprobe ipaq vendor=0x3f0 product=0x1125
	100
	101	The driver presents a serial interface (usually on /dev/ttyUSB0) over
	102	which one may run ppp and establish a TCP/IP link to the PDA. Once this
	103	is done, you can transfer files, backup, download email etc. The most
	104	significant advantage of using USB is speed - I can get 73 to 113
	105	kbytes/sec for download/upload to my iPAQ.
	106
	107	This driver is only one of a set of components required to utilize
	108	the USB connection. Please visit http://synce.sourceforge.net which
	109	contains the necessary packages and a simple step-by-step howto.
	110
	111	Once connected, you can use Win CE programs like ftpView, Pocket Outlook
	112	from the PDA and xcerdisp, synce utilities from the Linux side.
	113
	114	To use Pocket IE, follow the instructions given at
	115	http://www.tekguru.co.uk/EM500/usbtonet.htm to achieve the same thing
	116	on Win98. Omit the proxy server part; Linux is quite capable of forwarding
	117	packets unlike Win98. Another modification is required at least for the
	118	iPAQ - disable autosync by going to the Start/Settings/Connections menu
	119	and unchecking the "Automatically synchronize ..." box. Go to
	120	Start/Programs/Connections, connect the cable and select "usbdial" (or
	121	whatever you named your new USB connection). You should finally wind
	122	up with a "Connected to usbdial" window with status shown as connected.
	123	Now start up PIE and browse away.
	124
	125	If it doesn't work for some reason, load both the usbserial and ipaq module
	126	with the module parameter "debug" set to 1 and examine the system log.
	127	You can also try soft-resetting your PDA before attempting a connection.
	128
	129	Other functionality may be possible depending on your PDA. According to
	130	Wes Cilldhaire <billybobjoehenrybob@hotmail.com>, with the Toshiba E570,
	131	...if you boot into the bootloader (hold down the power when hitting the
	132	reset button, continuing to hold onto the power until the bootloader screen
	133	is displayed), then put it in the cradle with the ipaq driver loaded, open
	134	a terminal on /dev/ttyUSB0, it gives you a "USB Reflash" terminal, which can
	135	be used to flash the ROM, as well as the microP code.. so much for needing
	136	Toshiba's $350 serial cable for flashing!! :D
137	NOTE: This has NOT been tested. Use at your own risk.
138
139	For any questions or problems with the driver, please contact Ganesh
140	Varadarajan <ganesh@veritas.com>
141
142
143	Keyspan PDA Serial Adapter
144
145	Single port DB-9 serial adapter, pushed as a PDA adapter for iMacs (mostly
146	sold in Macintosh catalogs, comes in a translucent white/green dongle).
147	Fairly simple device. Firmware is homebrew.
148	This driver also works for the Xircom/Entrgra single port serial adapter.
149
150	Current status:
151	Things that work:
152	basic input/output (tested with 'cu')
153	blocking write when serial line can't keep up
154	changing baud rates (up to 115200)
155	getting/setting modem control pins (TIOCM{GET,SET,BIS,BIC})
156	sending break (although duration looks suspect)
157	Things that don't:
158	device strings (as logged by kernel) have trailing binary garbage
159	device ID isn't right, might collide with other Keyspan products
160	changing baud rates ought to flush tx/rx to avoid mangled half characters
161	Big Things on the todo list:
162	parity, 7 vs 8 bits per char, 1 or 2 stop bits
163	HW flow control
164	not all of the standard USB descriptors are handled: Get_Status, Set_Feature
165	O_NONBLOCK, select()
166
167	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Brian
168	Warner at warner@lothar.com
169
170
171	Keyspan USA-series Serial Adapters
172
173	Single, Dual and Quad port adapters - driver uses Keyspan supplied
174	firmware and is being developed with their support.
175
176	Current status:
177	The USA-18X, USA-28X, USA-19, USA-19W and USA-49W are supported and
fa00e7e1	178	have been pretty thoroughly tested at various baud rates with 8-N-1
1da177e4 LT	179	character settings. Other character lengths and parity setups are
	180	presently untested.
	181
	182	The USA-28 isn't yet supported though doing so should be pretty
	183	straightforward. Contact the maintainer if you require this
	184	functionality.
	185
	186	More information is available at:
	187	http://misc.nu/hugh/keyspan.html
	188
	189	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Hugh
	190	Blemings at hugh@misc.nu
	191
	192
	193	FTDI Single Port Serial Driver
	194
e04d80b0	195	This is a single port DB-25 serial adapter.
1da177e4	196
e04d80b0	197	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Bill Ryder.
1da177e4 LT	198
	199
	200	ZyXEL omni.net lcd plus ISDN TA
	201
	202	This is an ISDN TA. Please report both successes and troubles to
	203	azummo@towertech.it
	204
	205
	206	Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver
	207
	208	This driver was in most part developed by Neil "koyama" Whelchel. It
	209	has been improved since that previous form to support dynamic serial
	210	line settings and improved line handling. The driver is for the most
	211	part stable and has been tested on an smp machine. (dual p2)
	212
	213	Chipsets supported under CY4601 family:
	214
	215	CY7C63723, CY7C63742, CY7C63743, CY7C64013
	216
	217	Devices supported:
	218
	219	-DeLorme's USB Earthmate (SiRF Star II lp arch)
	220	-Cypress HID->COM RS232 adapter
	221
	222	Note: Cypress Semiconductor claims no affiliation with the
670e9f34	223	hid->com device.
1da177e4 LT	224
	225	Most devices using chipsets under the CY4601 family should
	226	work with the driver. As long as they stay true to the CY4601
	227	usbserial specification.
	228
	229	Technical notes:
	230
	231	The Earthmate starts out at 4800 8N1 by default... the driver will
	232	upon start init to this setting. usbserial core provides the rest
	233	of the termios settings, along with some custom termios so that the
	234	output is in proper format and parsable.
	235
	236	The device can be put into sirf mode by issuing NMEA command:
	237	$PSRF100,<protocol>,<baud>,<databits>,<stopbits>,<parity>*CHECKSUM
	238	$PSRF100,0,9600,8,1,0*0C
	239
	240	It should then be sufficient to change the port termios to match this
	241	to begin communicating.
	242
	243	As far as I can tell it supports pretty much every sirf command as
	244	documented online available with firmware 2.31, with some unknown
	245	message ids.
	246
	247	The hid->com adapter can run at a maximum baud of 115200bps. Please note
	248	that the device has trouble or is incapable of raising line voltage properly.
	249	It will be fine with null modem links, as long as you do not try to link two
	250	together without hacking the adapter to set the line high.
	251
	252	The driver is smp safe. Performance with the driver is rather low when using
fa00e7e1	253	it for transferring files. This is being worked on, but I would be willing to
1da177e4 LT	254	accept patches. An urb queue or packet buffer would likely fit the bill here.
	255
	256	If you have any questions, problems, patches, feature requests, etc. you can
	257	contact me here via email:
	258	dignome@gmail.com
	259	(your problems/patches can alternately be submitted to usb-devel)
	260
	261
	262	Digi AccelePort Driver
	263
	264	This driver supports the Digi AccelePort USB 2 and 4 devices, 2 port
	265	(plus a parallel port) and 4 port USB serial converters. The driver
	266	does NOT yet support the Digi AccelePort USB 8.
	267
	268	This driver works under SMP with the usb-uhci driver. It does not
	269	work under SMP with the uhci driver.
	270
	271	The driver is generally working, though we still have a few more ioctls
992caacf	272	to implement and final testing and debugging to do. The parallel port
1da177e4 LT	273	on the USB 2 is supported as a serial to parallel converter; in other
	274	words, it appears as another USB serial port on Linux, even though
	275	physically it is really a parallel port. The Digi Acceleport USB 8
	276	is not yet supported.
	277
	278	Please contact Peter Berger (pberger@brimson.com) or Al Borchers
	279	(alborchers@steinerpoint.com) for questions or problems with this
	280	driver.
	281
	282
	283	Belkin USB Serial Adapter F5U103
	284
	285	Single port DB-9/PS-2 serial adapter from Belkin with firmware by eTEK Labs.
	286	The Peracom single port serial adapter also works with this driver, as
	287	well as the GoHubs adapter.
	288
	289	Current status:
	290	The following have been tested and work:
	291	Baud rate 300-230400
	292	Data bits 5-8
	293	Stop bits 1-2
	294	Parity N,E,O,M,S
	295	Handshake None, Software (XON/XOFF), Hardware (CTSRTS,CTSDTR)*
	296	Break Set and clear
5d3f083d	297	Line control Input/Output query and control **
1da177e4 LT	298
	299	* Hardware input flow control is only enabled for firmware
	300	levels above 2.06. Read source code comments describing Belkin
	301	firmware errata. Hardware output flow control is working for all
	302	firmware versions.
	303	** Queries of inputs (CTS,DSR,CD,RI) show the last
	304	reported state. Queries of outputs (DTR,RTS) show the last
	305	requested state and may not reflect current state as set by
	306	automatic hardware flow control.
	307
	308	TO DO List:
5d3f083d	309	-- Add true modem control line query capability. Currently tracks the
1da177e4 LT	310	states reported by the interrupt and the states requested.
	311	-- Add error reporting back to application for UART error conditions.
	312	-- Add support for flush ioctls.
	313	-- Add everything else that is missing :)
	314
	315	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact William
	316	Greathouse at wgreathouse@smva.com
	317
	318
	319	Empeg empeg-car Mark I/II Driver
	320
	321	This is an experimental driver to provide connectivity support for the
	322	client synchronization tools for an Empeg empeg-car mp3 player.
	323
	324	Tips:
	325	* Don't forget to create the device nodes for ttyUSB{0,1,2,...}
	326	* modprobe empeg (modprobe is your friend)
	327	* emptool --usb /dev/ttyUSB0 (or whatever you named your device node)
	328
	329	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Gary
	330	Brubaker at xavyer@ix.netcom.com
	331
	332
	333	MCT USB Single Port Serial Adapter U232
	334
	335	This driver is for the MCT USB-RS232 Converter (25 pin, Model No.
	336	U232-P25) from Magic Control Technology Corp. (there is also a 9 pin
	337	Model No. U232-P9). More information about this device can be found at
0f035b8e	338	the manufacturer's web-site: http://www.mct.com.tw.
1da177e4 LT	339
	340	The driver is generally working, though it still needs some more testing.
	341	It is derived from the Belkin USB Serial Adapter F5U103 driver and its
	342	TODO list is valid for this driver as well.
	343
	344	This driver has also been found to work for other products, which have
	345	the same Vendor ID but different Product IDs. Sitecom's U232-P25 serial
	346	converter uses Product ID 0x230 and Vendor ID 0x711 and works with this
	347	driver. Also, D-Link's DU-H3SP USB BAY also works with this driver.
	348
	349	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Wolfgang
	350	Grandegger at wolfgang@ces.ch
	351
	352
	353	Inside Out Networks Edgeport Driver
	354
	355	This driver supports all devices made by Inside Out Networks, specifically
	356	the following models:
	357	Edgeport/4
	358	Rapidport/4
	359	Edgeport/4t
	360	Edgeport/2
	361	Edgeport/4i
	362	Edgeport/2i
	363	Edgeport/421
	364	Edgeport/21
	365	Edgeport/8
	366	Edgeport/8 Dual
	367	Edgeport/2D8
	368	Edgeport/4D8
	369	Edgeport/8i
	370	Edgeport/2 DIN
	371	Edgeport/4 DIN
	372	Edgeport/16 Dual
	373
	374	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
	375	Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com
	376
	377
	378	REINER SCT cyberJack pinpad/e-com USB chipcard reader
	379
	380	Interface to ISO 7816 compatible contactbased chipcards, e.g. GSM SIMs.
	381
	382	Current status:
	383	This is the kernel part of the driver for this USB card reader.
	384	There is also a user part for a CT-API driver available. A site
	385	for downloading is TBA. For now, you can request it from the
	386	maintainer (linux-usb@sii.li).
	387
	388	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact
	389	linux-usb@sii.li
	390
	391
	392	Prolific PL2303 Driver
	393
3d861494	394	This driver supports any device that has the PL2303 chip from Prolific
1da177e4 LT	395	in it. This includes a number of single port USB to serial
1da177e4 LT	396	converters and USB GPS devices. Devices from Aten (the UC-232) and
3d861494	397	IO-Data work with this driver, as does the DCU-11 mobile-phone cable.
1da177e4 LT	398
	399	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
	400	Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com
	401
	402
	403	KL5KUSB105 chipset / PalmConnect USB single-port adapter
	404
	405	Current status:
	406	The driver was put together by looking at the usb bus transactions
	407	done by Palm's driver under Windows, so a lot of functionality is
	408	still missing. Notably, serial ioctls are sometimes faked or not yet
	409	implemented. Support for finding out about DSR and CTS line status is
	410	however implemented (though not nicely), so your favorite autopilot(1)
	411	and pilot-manager -daemon calls will work. Baud rates up to 115200
	412	are supported, but handshaking (software or hardware) is not, which is
	413	why it is wise to cut down on the rate used is wise for large
	414	transfers until this is settled.
	415
	416	Options supported:
	417	If this driver is compiled as a module you can pass the following
	418	options to it:
	419	debug - extra verbose debugging info
	420	(default: 0; nonzero enables)
	421	use_lowlatency - use low_latency flag to speed up tty layer
670e9f34	422	when reading from the device.
1da177e4 LT	423	(default: 0; nonzero enables)
	424
	425	See http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/palmconnect.html for up-to-date
	426	information on this driver.
	427
6ce76104 FK	428	Winchiphead CH341 Driver
	429
	430	This driver is for the Winchiphead CH341 USB-RS232 Converter. This chip
	431	also implements an IEEE 1284 parallel port, I2C and SPI, but that is not
	432	supported by the driver. The protocol was analyzed from the behaviour
	433	of the Windows driver, no datasheet is available at present.
	434	The manufacturer's website: http://www.winchiphead.com/.
	435	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact
	436	frank@kingswood-consulting.co.uk.
	437
	438
1da177e4 LT	439	Generic Serial driver
	440
	441	If your device is not one of the above listed devices, compatible with
	442	the above models, you can try out the "generic" interface. This
	443	interface does not provide any type of control messages sent to the
	444	device, and does not support any kind of device flow control. All that
	445	is required of your device is that it has at least one bulk in endpoint,
	446	or one bulk out endpoint.
	447
	448	To enable the generic driver to recognize your device, build the driver
	449	as a module and load it by the following invocation:
	450	insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
	451	where the #### is replaced with the hex representation of your device's
	452	vendor id and product id.
	453
	454	This driver has been successfully used to connect to the NetChip USB
	455	development board, providing a way to develop USB firmware without
	456	having to write a custom driver.
	457
	458	For any questions or problems with this driver, please contact Greg
	459	Kroah-Hartman at greg@kroah.com
	460
	461
	462	CONTACT:
	463
	464	If anyone has any problems using these drivers, with any of the above
	465	specified products, please contact the specific driver's author listed
	466	above, or join the Linux-USB mailing list (information on joining the
	467	mailing list, as well as a link to its searchable archive is at
	468	http://www.linux-usb.org/ )
	469
	470
	471	Greg Kroah-Hartman
	472	greg@kroah.com