[BRLTTY] keyspan usb-serial adaptor with debian and ubuntu
Cheryl Homiak
chomiak7737 at att.net
Mon Dec 17 13:37:03 EST 2007
This relates to my attempts to get brltty to work with a netinst from
debian so I could use brltty for the install. As already documented, with
my prolific adaptor I was able to start brltty but this did not result in
useable output. I'm hoping this has been resolved and will report after I
try the weekly build of testing/Lenny that will include the fix for my
problem.
However, I went back to trying this same process with the keyspan adaptor;
I had assumed before that my reason for failure to even get brltty up with
the keyspan was that I had not realized I had to hit enter on my mac mini
before the boot prompt would even appear. However, this proved not to be
the problem; the keyspan adaptor simply does not work with the netinst.
The adaptor itself is not defective; it works on my windows machine and
works on my mac in terminal with brltty. On my mac it uses the device
brought up by the install of the keyspan driver on the Mac rather than
ttyUSb0.
In searching for a reason for this problem, I discovered that the keypsan
site reported that ubuntu/debian required the user to install the keyspan
driver manually because of license issues. If this is still the case,
could this explain why the keyspan adaptor will not work for me with the
netinst? If so, perhaps we could place the information somewhere so people
will be forewarned that they can't use the Keyspan with a debian install
cd. Since I have the prolific also, this isn't an issue for me; I was
considering giving my prolific away to somebody else who needed an adaptor
and thought I'd better check results of the keyspan with the netinst
again; now obviously I won't be giving away my prolific unless my
understanding of the situation proves to be incorrect.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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