Re: Keyspan USB serial adapter on Debian

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:40:20AM -0800, Steve DeLaney wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All, not sure if this topic has been aired out before, but I'm new to the
> forum.
> I'm attempting to bring up a USB serial adapter on Debian so we can use a
> serial port at 230.4KBaud 
> or faster if possible.
>  
> well I'd though to just plug my keyspan adapter in and away we go.  not so
> fast.  Fedora, yes, Debian no.
>  
> From what I gather there were licensing objections in Debian leaving it to
> the user to roll their own.
> I'm trying to figure out if Keyspan support can just be built as a loadable
> kernel module for Debian.
> or is it more involved than that?

Try asking the Debian developers, this is not an upstream, kernel.org
issue, it is only due to Debian being very stubborn with regards to
their intrepretation of how firmware blobs work within the kernel and
the license of the kernel package.

Keyspan devices work very well with Linux on all other distros, so
perhaps you might just want to switch distros :)

good luck,

greg k-h

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