USB pl2303 dongle recognized by usb but not serial command

[Fabian Sturm]

Hi,

I just installed grub-1.99 and loaded the uhci module on the grub  
command line.
When I now enter usb I find the USB serial donge in the list but I  
can't run the serial console on it.

E.g. "serial --unit=0 --speed=9600" returns "unknown serial port".

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

The usb command output:

Product: 'USB-Serial Controller D',
Vendor: 'Prolific Technology Inc. '
Class: (0x00) Unkown, Subclass: 0x00, Protocol: 0x00
USB version 1.1, VendorID: 0x557, ProductID: 0x2008, #conf: 1 Full  
speed device
Interface #0: #Endpoints: 3 Class: (0xff) Unkown, Subclass: 0x00,  
Protocol: 0x00
Endpoint #1: IN, max packed size: 10, transfer type: Interrupt, latency: 1
Endpoint #2: OUT, max packed size: 64, transfer type: Bulk, latency: 0
Endpoint #3: IN, max packed size: 64, transfer type: Bulk, latency: 0

Sincerely Fabian



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