[mythtv-users] Directv with usb 2 serial adapters

[William Munson]

Tim Litwiller wrote:
>
>     Yep, so you can see the driver loading there, but there is nowhere
>     that
>     it attaches to the usb device.   You can see in my dmesg after
>     loading
>     the pl2303 driver that it actually attaches to a device file.
>
>     drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
>     pl2303
>     pl2303 6-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
>     *usb 6-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0*
>     usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
>     drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor
>     driver
>
>     I'm still not sure you have a prolific device.   Where did you buy it?
>     Here is the model # that I bought.  It works very well.
>     http://www.amazon.com/GWC-INC-UC-320-Serial-Converter/dp/tech-data/B00007AP2P/ref=de_a_smtd/104-5325225-7522323
>     <http://www.amazon.com/GWC-INC-UC-320-Serial-Converter/dp/tech-data/B00007AP2P/ref=de_a_smtd/104-5325225-7522323>
>
>
> I am starting to doubt it also. But that is what the windows driver 
> disk says it is, and it looks exactly like the cord in that link. Hmm, 
> I'll have try them between 2 windows machines and see if maybe they 
> are just defective cords.
>
> oh, The cd that came with it has a pl2303 linux driver source code 
> file for redhat 7.3,8, & 9.  Do you suppose there is any chance it 
> would work better than the module that is in Fedora Core 6 - I'm 
> guessing it would be older.
>
>
Since your existing device driver is not getting loaded you might want 
to try that cd based driver. I suspect that your cable device uses an 
identifier that FC6 is not recognizing and not loading the driver. The 
redhat driver should work for your fedora install.