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I bought a USB serial adaptor from Maplin Electronics which wasn't supported by linux, so I wrote some drivers for it. The company that makes the chip didn't want to give me any information (As usual) so I had to reverse engineer everything. No decompilation was done I just inserted a DLL which logged all USB messages in windows and put the device through its paces. In the true spirit of Linux/USB I haven't provided any documentation. But I'm sure you'll know what to do. Any trouble mail me and I'll give you a hand. - James.


Since then Prolific have written a driver for the chip and they distribute it as source code: search of PL2303 Linux Drivers here. My drivers are therefore old and thus only of historical interest.

Index of /james/pl2303

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[DIR] Parent Directory        10-Apr-2001 18:12      -  
[   ] diffs.patch             07-May-2001 01:35     3k  
[   ] pl2303.c                07-May-2001 01:35    18k  
[   ] pl2303.h                07-May-2001 01:35     1k