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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:57:08 +0100
From: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] just checking ...
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Good morning.

Am Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:54:41 +0100 schrieb "Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>:

> Hello
>
> that card seems to be nice for out of band management of non-mobile
> equipment, isn't it better to use a usb one? i think Christoph has an
> usb serial driver for plan9, that way you can use it with a notebook too :-?
>
> gabi

The driver is at [0]. The file needs to be extracted into /sys/src/cmd/usb/misc
and then mk usbuart.install. Usage is as follows:

	% usb/usbuart;
	% con -b 115200 /n/uart/uia;

I did not submit it to sources, because I had no time to write a manpage, but
the commands to /n/uart/uiactl are the same as to /dev/eia0ctl.

Sincerely,

Christoph

[0] http://www.r-36.net/usbuart.tgz
    || /n/sources/contrib/zwansch/usbuart.tgz