Host Configuration -- Host Configuration for USB Serial like Peripherals
Host Configuration
Configuration for two hosts are listed here, Microsoft Windows
and Linux. It should also be possible to use the eCos USB
serial like peripheral driver with other hosts.
Linux
The eCos USB serial like peripheral driver can be used in
Linux in one of two ways.
Using the generic usbserial kernel module passing the
vendor and product ID as module parameters. e.g.
modprobe usbserial vendor=0xabcd product=0x1234
would load the kernel module so that it would use a
USB device abcd:1234 as a serial device.
Using the mini driver provided with eCos in the
host/linux
directory. This driver must be edited and the correct
vendor and product ID set to match the vendor and
product ID used by the device. Once compiled this
driver can be loaded with:
modprobe usbserial
modprobe ecos_usbserial
This driver is known to compile with kernel versions
2.6.18 and probably works fine with other
kernels. However it fails to compile with kernels
after 2.6.25.
Both of these methods will result in the Linux Kernel making
a new serial device available. This is typically
named /dev/ttyUSB0.
Microsoft Windows
To install the device in a Microsoft Windows system make use
of the INF file
in host/windows/eCosUsbSerial.inf. Copy
this INF file and usbser.sys from your
version of Windows into an empty directory. Then plug in the
USB device. When prompted to load a driver navigate to the
INF file and select it.
