Microsoft Windows Drivers; Linux Drivers - Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Owner's Manual

Supported host applications
The following terminal emulator applications can be used to communicate with an ME5 Series controller module:
Table 31. Supported terminal emulator applications
Application
PuTTY
Minicom
Command-line interface
When the computer detects a connection to the emulated serial port, the controller awaits input of characters from the
computer using the command-line interface. To see the CLI prompt, you must press Enter.
NOTE: Directly cabling to the micro-USB port is considered an out-of-band connection. The connection to the micro-USB
port is outside of the normal data paths to the controller enclosure.
Device driver/special operation mode
Certain operating systems require a device driver or special mode of operation. The following table displays the product and
vendor identification information that is required for certain operating systems:
Table 32. USB identification code
USB identification code type
USB Vendor ID
USB Product ID

Microsoft Windows drivers

Windows Server 2016 and later operating systems provide a native USB serial driver that supports the micro-USB port.

Linux drivers

Linux operating systems do not require the installation of an ME5 Series USB driver. However, certain parameters must be
provided during driver loading to enable recognition of the micro-USB port on an ME5 Series controller module.
Type the following command to load the Linux device driver with the parameters that are required to recognize the micro-USB
port:
# modprobe usbserial vendor=0x210c product=0xa4a7 use_acm=1
NOTE: Optionally, this information can be incorporated into the /etc/modules.conf file.
Operating system
Microsoft Windows (all versions)
Linux (all versions)
Code
0x210C
0xA4A7
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