sjorge: Yes, that is indeed the kernel driver.

sjorge: If you would like, I have a WIP replacement FTDI driver you could try

sjorge: Well anyway if you want to try it, I have squashed it and put it at github.com/jclulow/illumos-gate/tree/serdev-20220919-01

Interesting, now I need to figure out how compale that into a pkg archive to throw over my omnios-bloody install

QQ: user wants to hand me an NTFS-formatted USB drive to load data into OmniOS. I know Linux's support for NTFS has always been spotty but I don't think I've ever tried with OmniOS. Anyone here know if it's even worth trying?

the only ntfs stuff I know is the exact same as the linux userland stuff

that's better than what I remember but ... I think I'll have them find an alternative.

download a free windows VM and SMB?

The OmniOS hosts are strictly file servers. I'd prefer not to taint them.

Most likely we'll connect it to an existing windows host and scp.

at least that way the data will be on the local network instead of the far end of a narrow straw.

kinky but probably not worth it.

Not sure windows will even do such a thing.

actually it does. with wsl

which should have raw device access

or a natively compiled gnu tar with cygwin

with tar you could also get away with vfat

or 7zip with archive splitting