On Thu, 01 Nov 2007, ken restivo wrote:

> The keyspan.c CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KEYSPAN is not set in the default 2.6.22 
> kernel.
> 
> The firmware for the various keyspan devices are also not included in
> the built kernel.

it never was enabled in debian since a long time due to questionable
license text, see
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing#head-8eb93faca600756acd06fc271633bf81254ac1a5
 
> I worked around this by using make menuconfig and make-kpkg and
> rebuilding the kernel, but it would be nice if these devices were
> supported in the default Debian binary kernel linux-image package.

you might want to ask the vendor to change license to bsd
as he may no longer care, then it is no trouble to distribute
in debian main.

regards

-- 
maks



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