Hello folks.
I had received shipment of a CFA635-YYE kit yesterday, and needless to say, I'm very pleased with the purchase.
As my primary OS is FreeBSD, I was anticipating a less than clear road in getting this unit working. Thankfully, it was a lot less painful than I had thought. Initially, I had looked at a website describing getting a CFA634 up and running under FreeBSD, but that site, altho informative, was based on an older version of FreeBSD.
I've included a unified diff against /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uftdi.c and /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs that will add support for the CFA635. After patching and rebuilding, the unit will appear as:
ucom0: Crystalfontz Crystalfontz CFA-635 USB LCD, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
And can be accessed via either device node: /dev/cuaU0 or /dev/ttyU0, with the latter being preferred.
LCDproc works great with this setup. Shortly, I should be able to post some test C source based on the CFA635 data sheet. It's in a rough state at the moment, but functional.
Hope this helps other FreeBSD users out there.
- John.
I had received shipment of a CFA635-YYE kit yesterday, and needless to say, I'm very pleased with the purchase.
As my primary OS is FreeBSD, I was anticipating a less than clear road in getting this unit working. Thankfully, it was a lot less painful than I had thought. Initially, I had looked at a website describing getting a CFA634 up and running under FreeBSD, but that site, altho informative, was based on an older version of FreeBSD.
I've included a unified diff against /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uftdi.c and /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs that will add support for the CFA635. After patching and rebuilding, the unit will appear as:
ucom0: Crystalfontz Crystalfontz CFA-635 USB LCD, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2
And can be accessed via either device node: /dev/cuaU0 or /dev/ttyU0, with the latter being preferred.
LCDproc works great with this setup. Shortly, I should be able to post some test C source based on the CFA635 data sheet. It's in a rough state at the moment, but functional.
Hope this helps other FreeBSD users out there.
- John.
Code:
--- usbdevs.orig Thu Jan 4 11:00:31 2007
+++ usbdevs Thu Jan 4 10:50:24 2007
@@ -790,6 +790,7 @@
product FTDI CFA_632 0xfc08 Crystalfontz CFA-632 USB LCD
product FTDI CFA_633 0xfc0b Crystalfontz CFA-633 USB LCD
product FTDI CFA_634 0xfc09 Crystalfontz CFA-634 USB LCD
+product FTDI CFA_635 0xfc0d Crystalfontz CFA-635 USB LCD
product FTDI SEMC_DSS20 0xfc82 SEMC DSS-20 SyncStation
/* Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd. products */
--- uftdi.c.orig Thu Jan 4 11:00:45 2007
+++ uftdi.c Thu Jan 4 10:49:26 2007
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@
uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_632 ||
uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_633 ||
uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_634 ||
+ uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_635 ||
uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_USBSERIAL ||
uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_MX2_3 ||
uaa->product == USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_MX4_5 ||
@@ -242,6 +243,7 @@
case USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_632:
case USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_633:
case USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_634:
+ case USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_CFA_635:
case USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_USBSERIAL:
case USB_PRODUCT_FTDI_MX2_3:
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