[wish-info] X10 Powerlinc on KeySpan USB dongle

[David S. Dee]

Hello;

I am trying to move my x10 setup over to my new Centos5 machine that
(currently) has no serial ports. I am attempting to use my KeySpan
USB-to-Serial connector and attaching the Serial-Powerlinc to that.
Installation of x10dev2 went fine.

Here is my syslog output as I do the mod probe and bring up the 3
processes manually:

Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial Driver core
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial support registered for Keyspan - (without firmware)
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial support registered for Keyspan 1 port adapter
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial support registered for Keyspan 2 port adapter
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB
Serial support registered for Keyspan 4 port adapter
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: usb 4-2: Keyspan 1 port adapter
converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver keyspan
Aug 28 16:56:03 centos5 kernel: drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c:
v1.1.4:Keyspan USB to Serial Converter Driver
...
Aug 28 17:00:17 centos5 sudo: david : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/dsdee ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/modprobe x10
Aug 28 17:00:17 centos5 kernel: x10: X10 DEV module v2.1.3
(***@sprintmail.com)
Aug 28 17:00:17 centos5 kernel: x10: $Id: dev.c,v 1.23 2006/03/29
02:33:23 root Exp root $
Aug 28 17:00:17 centos5 kernel: x10: X10 driver successfully loaded
Aug 28 17:00:20 centos5 sudo: david : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/dsdee ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/pld -tag x10pld -device /dev/ttyUSB0
Aug 28 17:00:20 centos5 x10pld[3941]: starting.
api-device=/dev/x10/.api, pidfile=/var/run/x10d.pid
Aug 28 17:00:20 centos5 x10pld[3941]: Successfully opened X10 API device
/dev/x10/.api
Aug 28 17:00:21 centos5 x10pld[3942]: Transmit thread starting
Aug 28 17:00:23 centos5 x10pld[3942]: Connecting to Powerlinc Serial
Interface on /dev/ttyUSB0
Aug 28 17:00:25 centos5 x10pld[3942]: Timeout reading from /dev/ttyUSB0
Aug 28 17:00:25 centos5 x10pld[3942]: transmitter connected
Aug 28 17:00:28 centos5 sudo: david : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/dsdee ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/x10logd -s -t x10_pl
Aug 28 17:00:28 centos5 x10_pl[3944]: starting.
Logfile=/var/log/x10log, socket-device=/dev/x10/log,
pidfile=/var/run/x10logd.pid


As you can see, it's getting a "Timeout reading from ..." after starting
up the x10pld daemon.

Has anyone else gotten a setup like this to work???

Thanks in advance,
David