On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 03:31:52PM +0000, Florian Eichelberger ARES wrote: > I just wanted to use a USB/serial TTL Converter that is using the > Prolific PL2303GS Chipset on Kali Linux 2022.1-virtualbox-amd64. > The device is a waveshare PL2303 USB UART Board (Type C) > (see here: https://www.waveshare.com/pl2303-usb-uart-board-type-c.htm ) > > Uname -a shows > Linux kali 5.15.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.15.15-2kali1 (2022-01-31) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > It does not seem to work / be recognized and thus useable under linux > and this is what I get using dmesg after plugging in the device and > connecting it to my Virtualbox and thus I am sending this message as > instructed 😊 > (I am using Virtualbox Version 6.1.32 r149290 (Qt5.6.2) with USB 2.0 > (OHCI+EHCI) enabled ) > > [ 8784.041905] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, device number 5 > [10055.489536] usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ohci-pci > [10056.048307] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=23f3, bcdDevice= 6.05 > [10056.089015] pl2303 2-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected > [10056.089020] pl2303 2-2:1.0: unknown device type, please report to linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks for the report. This has been fixed in mainline by commit 5b6ab28d0678 ("USB: serial: pl2303: fix GS type detection"), which was backported and included in the stable kernels that were released yesterday (e.g. 5.15.33). Johan
