[BRLTTY] keyspan usb-serial adaptor with debian and ubuntu

[Cheryl Homiak]

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."