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ftdi usb to serial drivers

Added by Scott Whitney over 12 years ago

Hello,
I want to access a device across the host USB that uses a FTDI chip to transmit serial data across the usb. When I plug the usb device into the MityDSP the usb device is recognized correctly, but the FTDI usb to serial driver is not installed. I have looked in the kernel source, but have not seen this in there. I also have not seen it when I opened up the kernel menuconfig tool. Do you know if these drivers are available in the MityDSP linux kernel? I know it is available in linux and a few embedded devices. I therefore think I have something misconfigured. Thanks, Scott


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RE: ftdi usb to serial drivers - Added by Tim Iskander over 12 years ago

Scott
The FTDI serial drivers should be in the kernel source tree (as of kernel v 2.6.31)
Its the "USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver"
See <http://ftdi-usb-sio.sourceforge.net/> for more

In Menu Config:
Device Drivers --> USB support --> USB Serial Converter support [ must be enabled ] --> USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver

hope this helps
cheers
/Tim

RE: ftdi usb to serial drivers - Added by Scott Whitney over 12 years ago

Tim,
Thanks for the help. I see the source in the code tree and also see why I couldn't see it in menuconfig. My problem now is when I try to compile. I think I am missing a step in my setup. I get this error:
Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
UIMAGE arch/arm/boot/uImage
"mkimage" command not found - U-Boot images will not be built
make1: * [arch/arm/boot/uImage] Error 1
make: *
[uImage] Error 2

I think mkimage is part of u-boot?
again thanks for the help, Scott

RE: ftdi usb to serial drivers - Added by Michael Williamson over 12 years ago

You need to install mkimage on your linux machine.

apt-get install uboot-mkimage

-Mike

RE: ftdi usb to serial drivers - Added by Scott Whitney over 12 years ago

Thanks Mike that worked.

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