Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 131406
usb-serial transmit fails on IOGear USB to Serial Adapter GUC232A
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:09:20 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: Using the IOGear USB to Serial Adapter GUC232A, Recieving of RS232 data works, but Sending Data fails. No errors appear within the application (the application appears to hang) but the following message appears in /var/log/messages "usb 2-2: pl2303_write_bulk_callback - failed resubmitting write urb, error -1" I used both echo and minicom to write to the port and cat to recieve the data. Switching to the Vanilla 2.6.8 kernel but using the .config from 2.6.8-1.521 fixed the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.521 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Purchase and plug-in IOGear USB to Serial Adapter GUC232A 2. Connect another systems com port to Adapter using Null modem cable. 3. Configure port settings to match. 4. minicom on /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 will hang. 5. cat /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 will print output from other device (assuming buad rates match.) 6. echo "test text" > /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 will hang. Actual Results: #4 or #6 will cause the error in /var/log/messages listed in the description. Expected Results: #4 should not hang. What you type and modem init strings should show up on device. No error should appear in /var/log/messages #6 should not hang. "test text" (no quotes) should appear on device and no error should appear in /var/log/messages Additional info:
I disabled Legacy USB Support in my BIOS and upgraded to Fedora Core 3 (using kernel 2.6.9-667). The usb device now works flawlessly. I'm not sure if Legacy USB Support effects the Fedora Core Kernels (2.6.5 through 2.6.8) in terms of usb-serial differently than the Vanilla Kernels, but it is no longer required by me to work on Fedora Core 2 with 2.6.8-1.521.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.