Re: FTDI USB Serial Device not recognized by usb

[Jordan Uggla]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Horst Prote <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my aim is to have grub terminal over serial line but as the mainboard
> has no serial connector I bought an USB-Serial dongle but it is not
> recognized by "usb" on grub command line. Even after
>  insmod uhci
> or
>  insmod ohci
> the "usb" command still lists no device.
>
> When the system is booted the agetty on ttyUSB0 works fine though.
>
> System is gentoo, amd64 with grub-9999 (which is revision 4532 from
> bzr) and USE flags for grub_platforms_efi-64 and device-mapper.
>
> # lsusb | grep USB-Serial
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd 
> FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
>
> # cat /proc/tty/driver/usbserial
> usbserinfo:1.0 driver:2.0
> 0: name:"FTDI USB Serial Device" vendor:0403 product:6001 num_ports:1 port:1 
> path:usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5
>
> Horst
>
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Please file a bug report. And while it probably won't be fixed before
release anyway, you might want to submit it as soon as possible on the
off chance as GRUB 2.0 final will be released any day now.

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Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)