Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2014-01-15 Thread Johan Hovold
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:01:30AM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello together, > > i will close this bug at Debian now. > > After the last update this error seems to disappear in Debian stable. > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ChangeLog > USB: pl2303: fix device initialisation at o

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2014-01-13 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello together, i will close this bug at Debian now. After the last update this error seems to disappear in Debian stable. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/ChangeLog USB: pl2303: fix device initialisation at open The source for this patch can be found here: http://www.spinics.net/lists

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-16 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 15.12.2013 18:05, schrieb Greg KH: Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have been hopefully fixed since June when you last looked. greg k-h no at this time i have not tested it - sorry. Although i am fascinated from your work i personally prefer to use stable rele

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-15 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:32:33AM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Am 14.12.2013 18:08, schrieb Greg KH: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >> Hello together, > >> > >> is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? > >> It would be fine if it could w

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-15 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 14.12.2013 18:08, schrieb Greg KH: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have b

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 04:06:35PM +0100, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello together, > > is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? > It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Have you tried a newer kernel in a while? A number of things have been hopefully fixed since June when you last l

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-12-13 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello together, is there anything new for the PL-2303 HX? It would be fine if it could work like in the past. Of course for Linux there are good alternatives. Here is a new one with the CP2102 suffering easy supply voltage: http://www.ebay.de/itm/110954294607 Best regards Karsten Am 24.06.201

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 25.06.2013 19:29, schrieb Johan Hovold: Maybe Aric can explain it better? I only see several problems to use a PL-2303 HX with newer kernels. Just to be clear, that's your setup. AFAICT Aric never got his setup to work with any kernel (but for a brief period with the same 3.0 kernel). The

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Johan Hovold
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:12:28PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 25.06.2013 18:54, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >> Hello Greg, > >> > >> have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? > >> > >> Yesterday i got this interes

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 25.06.2013 18:54, schrieb Johan Hovold: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a similar problem with this chip. Why do you think t

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Johan Hovold
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? > > Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a > similar problem with this chip. Why do you think that this is related to the problem

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Greg KH: Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mistake, I am willing to donate the hardware to an able kernel hacker :-) Yes, I recommend the ftdi devices a

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-25 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 20:56, schrieb Greg KH: But wiring that up to a "real" 9pin serial port would be a pain (doable, but a pain). Is there any devices out there with a DB-9 output connector? You mean if you want to test full handshake with all signals - that's true. Which is what the dr

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:38:17PM -0400, Aric Fedida wrote: > I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to > the post office to send it. I'll send it off-list, thanks. > Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to > FTDI instead. But for the sake of

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:37:59PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 24.06.2013 20:18, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Hello Greg, > >> > >>Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: > >>>On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 20:18, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Hello Greg, > >> > >>have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? > >No, I have not been able t

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 24.06.2013 18:38, schrieb Aric Fedida: I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mista

Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Aric Fedida
I will gladly ship you one. Give me address details, and I'll go to the post office to send it. Personally, I have resolved to abandon the PL2303 chip, and move to FTDI instead. But for the sake of other Linux users who might buy that adapter by mistake, I am willing to donate the hardware to a

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Greg, Am 24.06.2013 18:17, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello Greg, have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one. Does anyone know where I can purchase one? Just take this one: http://

Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#704242: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-06-24 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Greg, > > have you buyed one of this jinxed PL-2303 HX adapters? No, I have not been able to find one. Does anyone know where I can purchase one? > Yesterday i got this interesting mail from Aric, who has analyzed a > simi

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-20 Thread Johan Hovold
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 09:50:52AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 19.04.2013 16:39, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > > >>> Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are > >>> being read back in the log you provided. > >> Stop - it's really possible that i send not enough byte

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:26:48PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hi Johan, > Am 19.04.2013 11:04, schrieb Johan Hovold: > >> This was a log with lost data. > >> The logs seems to make politics. ;-) > > Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are > > being read back in

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi Johan, Am 19.04.2013 11:04, schrieb Johan Hovold: This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) Then the problem is most likely not in the driver as the characters are being read back in the log you provided. Stop - it's really possible that i send not enough bytes. S

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:36:57AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 18.04.2013 12:56, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > > > Can you generate a log where bytes are actually lost? Nothing seemed to > > get lost in the previous log you posted. > > This was a log with lost data. > The logs seems to make pol

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:25:19AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 18.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: > >> I have used a little perl program that opens the port and send "Test" > >> to the looped back device. > >> The length of the log looks good. > > Great. Now I can see what's going on. T

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 18.04.2013 12:56, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you generate a log where bytes are actually lost? Nothing seemed to get lost in the previous log you posted. This was a log with lost data. The logs seems to make politics. ;-) How can i enable the debugging in kernel 3.8.5? Make sure debugfs i

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-19 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 18.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: I have used a little perl program that opens the port and send "Test" to the looped back device. The length of the log looks good. Great. Now I can see what's going on. The only problem (?) is that everything seems to be working. The write succeeds and

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Johan Hovold
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:36:17PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses > > dynamic debugging? > > I have compiled a 3.8.5 kernel now on Debian testing (wheezy). > The result is the same

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses dynamic debugging? I have compiled a 3.8.5 kernel now on Debian testing (wheezy). The result is the same as in 3.2.0 ! I could receive only some of the first bytes after opening the

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-18 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:43:11PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > Can you minimise your test setup using a custom program which only opens > > the device, initialises it, writes the four characters (e.g. "test") > > and reads them back (over you hardw

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 17.04.2013 15:13, schrieb Johan Hovold: The logs look incomplete. It's probably because they're flooded with serial_write_room and chars_in_buffer messages. Hmmm - i feared that this happens - the logs where to big. Can you try to reproduce this on a later kernel (e.g. 3.8) which uses dyn

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 17.04.2013 13:31, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > The logs there appear not to have debugging enabled in usb-serial core. > > Please post the logs with debugging enabled in both modules to this > > thread as well. > > O.K. Nobody has

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:12:54PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello Johan, > > Am 17.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: > > You should, but note, that's userspace, or the line discipline asking > > for this, but we might have tty changes that have cleaned this up so we > > aren't so "chatty

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello Johan, Am 17.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Johan Hovold: You should, but note, that's userspace, or the line discipline asking for this, but we might have tty changes that have cleaned this up so we aren't so "chatty" anymore. I attached the sources of the driver from the Debian kernel sources f

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-17 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 09:56:43AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 15.04.2013 18:16, schrieb Greg KH: > >> When i look at the debug output of the opened working port i would > >> say there is a polling for reading data about every 100 µs. > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=42;

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-16 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 15.04.2013 18:16, schrieb Greg KH: If you can't do the bisection, can you point me at the exact device you are using here so I can buy one and try to track this down? It seems that exact the same adapter is out of stock. But this seems to be nearly exact the same one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-15 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hi, > > Am 14.04.2013 16:01, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>please have a look at my last email in the bug report. > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=70424

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-15 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hi, Am 14.04.2013 16:01, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: please have a look at my last email in the bug report. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Do you have an idea what's maybe the difference that this adapter is working

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > please have a look at my last email in the bug report. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 > > Do you have an idea what's maybe the difference that this adapter is working > with kernel 2.6.32 ? Lots of thin

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-14 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 21:12, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-03 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 21:12, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-01 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 21:12, schrieb Greg KH: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-01 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: > >>>On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 31.03

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-04-01 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 01.04.2013 01:10, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 07:15:22PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: > >>>On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello, >

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 31.03.2013 18:58, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug: http://bugs.

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: > >On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. > >> > >>Please refer to this bug: > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Karsten Malcher
Am 31.03.2013 17:50, schrieb Greg KH: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Where can i address such a bug? How can i debug and help to

Re: Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Karsten Malcher wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. > > Please refer to this bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 > > Where can i address such a bug? > How can i debug and help to solve the problem? Ple

Driver for PL-2303 HX not working

2013-03-31 Thread Karsten Malcher
Hello, I have a problem with the PL2303HX chip. Please refer to this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704242 Where can i address such a bug? How can i debug and help to solve the problem? Best regards Karsten Malcher -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs