How to poke USB IDs to kernel driver

Question

Hi,
I have an FTDI USB to RS232 converter, but it is not detected and the driver is not loaded because the vendor uses his own vendor and device ID's. I wonder if it possible to poke the ID's to the kernel driver so that the converter is detected.
My thanks in advance.

Answer 1

neok wrote:
tomk wrote:Grab the kernel source and edit drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h as required - vendor id 2100 is already there, you just need to add a line for the 9e56 device.
Thanks, I will give it a try. Actually, I just tried an idea I found on Google, using
modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x2100 product=0x9e56
This produces a device /dev/ttyUSB0 which I can open through my transceiver control program, but the transceiver is not reponding.
Anyhow, thanks - we are stuck with the tricks of Windoze - only manufacturers. Wht harm will it do to be more open....they just want to sell their wares.
OK, I got it to work eventually as above. The transceiver itself had to be set up to match the baud rate in the control program.
My thanks for the help given here in the Arch forums.