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+==========
+USB serial
+==========
+
+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://sourceforge.net/projects/usbvisor/
+
+  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/Entrega 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://www.carnationsoftware.com/carnation/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.
+
+  Devices supported include:
+
+                - TripNav TN-200 USB GPS
+                - Navis Engineering Bureau CH-4711 USB GPS
+
+  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 GPS (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) [1]_
+      - Break        Set and clear
+      - Line control Input/Output query and control [2]_
+
+  .. [1]
+         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.
+
+  .. [2]
+         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,
+  more than 70% of USB GPS devices (in 2010), and some USB UPSes. 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.
+
+  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.
+
+Moschip MCS7720, MCS7715 driver
+-------------------------------
+
+  These chips are present in devices sold by various manufacturers, such as Syba
+  and Cables Unlimited.  There may be others.  The 7720 provides two serial
+  ports, and the 7715 provides one serial and one standard PC parallel port.
+  Support for the 7715's parallel port is enabled by a separate option, which
+  will not appear unless parallel port support is first enabled at the top-level
+  of the Device Drivers config menu.  Currently only compatibility mode is
+  supported on the parallel port (no ECP/EPP).
+
+  TODO:
+    - Implement ECP/EPP modes for the parallel port.
+    - Baud rates higher than 115200 are currently broken.
+    - Devices with a single serial port based on the Moschip MCS7703 may work
+      with this driver with a simple addition to the usb_device_id table.  I
+      don't have one of these devices, so I can't say for sure.
+
+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, provide::
+
+	echo <vid> <pid> >/sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/generic/new_id
+
+  where the <vid> and <pid> is replaced with the hex representation of your
+  device's vendor id and product id.
+  If the driver is compiled as a module you can also provide one id when
+  loading the module::
+
+	insmod usbserial vendor=0x#### product=0x####
+
+  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