Using the Blue Sewell USB to Serial connectors in Linux

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  • To use the blue Sewell USB to Serial adapters in Linux, you need to compile the newer pl2303 driver. You can get a Makefile and the driver .c file from here.
  • Put the Makefile and pl2303.c into a directory and type make to build the driver (this requires the kernel source to be in /usr/src/linux). Once it is built, you have two options:
  1. . Make a backup of your old pl2303 module, copy the new one into place, and run depmod -ae
  2. . Make sure to rmmod the existing pl2303, make sure that the usbserial module is laoded using modprobe usbserial, then insmod the new driver using insmod ./pl2303.o ... if there are versioning erros, just add a --force to the command
  • For windows drivers, please see the support section at www.sewelldirect.com ... our adapters were purchased after October 24th, 2004.
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