-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I recently purchased a Keyspan USB-Serial converter, and have been looking into what I would need to do to make it work in Ubuntu. The Keyspan site suggests compiling a new kernel; the wiki seems to say I can splice in a module without going to that extreme. Either of these is possible, but of course I'd rather just apt-get something if possible, and someone (perhaps Sarah Hobbs? - correct me if I'm wrong) suggested I ask Colin Watson if it might be eligible for inclusion in linux-restricted. I don't know the requirements for such things, so would appreciate it if some folks could look into it (I'm told Colin is on vacation this week - perhaps save him some work when he gets back?). If this has in fact already been taken care of without my knowledge, there is some documentation to fix.
Things I know so far: The keyspan drivers/firmware are included in the vanilla 2.6 kernel tree. They were pulled from Debian (and Ubuntu), and the license and reasoning are on http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing#head-8eb93faca600756acd06fc271633bf81254ac1a5. - From what I can tell, it's because of a not-quite-clear license, rather than an explicitly non-conforming license. Depending on policy, perhaps it would be okay in some places anyway as is, otherwise maybe we could get Keyspan to clarify the license. Keyspan notes that they are trying to improve Linux support, and encourage contact towards that regard, as enumerated at the top of http://www.keyspan.com/downloads-files/developer/linux/. Additionally, Googling caused me to stumble across http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.h, which I'm not entirely sure what it is, but possibly useful. http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=12065 discusses needing to manually create device nodes even with the drivers already installed, but is six years old, so we should check on whether this process can be done now without user interaction. Current patching instructions are at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/KeyspanDriver, but not terribly complete. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGwprc6iO+5ByUi/QRApYNAJwIeSEZoXrSP1KR8iBxoFkl8ccLVwCeLryT xOjFiMZ0xDWknBZpp1ILgYU= =wjO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
