Loading the TI USB 3410/5052 Driver

Appendix D – Installing with Linux

Building and Installing the TI USB Driver from the TGZ Package

Follow this step if your distribution does not support RPM packages; otherwise, follow the previous step on installing from an RPM package.

You need the TI USB 3410/5052 tgz package for this step. The Introduction section above describes where to find the latest TI USB 3410/5052 tgz package.

Command	Explanation

1. tar xvzf ti_usb_2.6‐X.Y.tgz	Un‐package the files.

2. cd ti_usb_2.6‐X.Y

3. ./configure	Configure the package for your distribution
	and kernel.

4. make install	Build and install the ti_usb_3410_5052 driver.

If there are problems, you may need to go back to install and prepare the kernel sources as described above.

The ti_usb_3410_5052 driver should be automatically loaded when you plug in the TI USB 3410/5052 devices, provided your device uses the default vendor and product ids. If it does not, see the section of the Release Notes file "VENDOR and PRODUCT IDS".

The first TI USB 3410/5052 device plugged in appears as /dev/ttyUSB0, then next as /dev/ttyUSB1, and so on. These device names are shared with other USB serial devices.

If TI USB devices had been in use before installing the new TI USB driver, old versions of the drivers can still be loaded. You must unload these old versions before the newly installed driver is used.

To unload old drivers and load new driver:

1.Reboot or

2.Close all open TI USB serial ports.

3.Disconnect the TI USB serial devices.

4.Unload the old TI USB serial driver with the command rmmod ti_usb_3410_5052

5.Reconnect the TI USB serial devices and the new driver is loaded.

Uninstalling the TI USB Driver (for 2.6 kernel versions)

If you installed the TI USB RPM package, you can uninstall it by logging in as root and running the command

rpm ‐e ti_usb_2.6‐X.Y‐Z

If you installed the TI USB TGZ package, you can uninstall it by logging in as root and using these commands:

Command	Explanation

cd ti_usb_2.6‐X.Y	Provide a full or relative path to the unpacked
	source file directory.
make uninstall

44	Multi‐Tech Systems, Inc. MT9234ZBA‐USB User Guide

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