Re: keyspan USB serial not creating devices

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:02:43AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I have a keyspan USB serial dongle that has quit working.  It used to work
> on a machine with an older kernel (2.6.18???), properly creating the
> /dev/ttyUSB device.  Unfortunately I no longer have that machine.  The
> machine it's on now runs a 2.6.26 kernel, and the device is not being
> created.  The dongle is recognized, but no ttyUSB? are created:
> 
> [139761.937391] usb 2-10.3: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> address 50
> [139762.046702] usb 2-10.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [139762.047357] keyspan 2-10.3:1.0: Keyspan - (without firmware)
> converter detected
> [139762.047364] firmware: requesting keyspan/usa19qi.fw
> [139762.089684] usb 2-10.3: New USB device found, idVendor\x06cd,
> idProduct\x010b
> [139762.089684] usb 2-10.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
> SerialNumber=0
> 
> It used to work with no firmware, but I went ahead and installed the
> firmware from the 2.6.27 kernel; no difference. Still no /dev/ttyUSB?
> device.

These devices never would work without firmware, the older kernel
versions had the firmware built into the drivers.  Are you sure you did
load the firmware for the device properly?  Can you just build the
firmware into the driver and see if that solves your issue?

thanks,

greg k-h