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USB Devices and Drivers

• If you are interested in compiling your own device drivers I recommend reading building a kernel and modules and looking at the Linux USB project webpage.

USB-to-Serial

1. I have built a module for the IOGear GUC232A. This is written for that particular USB-to-Serial adapter. If you have a different one, you will need to substitute that driver in a few places.
2. Download usbserial.o and pl2303.o and place them on the Stayton in /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk2-pxa2/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/.
3. On the stayton, you will need to make the device, /dev/usb/ttyUSB0:
   mkdir /dev/usb
   mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
4. On the stayton, run depmod to rebuild the module dependencies.
5. To install this module run modprobe pl2303 or to make it install ever time on boot up add insmod usbserial and insmod pl2303 to the end of all the insmod lines in /etc/init.d/loadusb.