Hello list, My hardware is a Sony PCG-GRX690. I was running Red Hat 9 on this laptop with some success (for work reasons). Now I am able to move off of the RH and back to my first choice of Debian.
Configuration: Distro: Up to date Debian Sid Kernel: 2.4.23-1-686 #1 Sun Nov 30 20:51:10 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux My problem is that I must get my Keyspan serial port (USA-19QW) working. (I have several other questions that I will address one at a time if I cannot get them myself:) It looks like the 19QW is beeing seen but no firmware is avialble? This 19QW has worked on this laptop with the RH distro and its default kernel so I know it will work here. Here is the dmesg info as I plug in and unplug the device- -- connected -- hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1.1, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x6cd/0x118) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver serial usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4 usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan - (without firmware) usbserial.c: Keyspan - (without firmware) converter detected keyspan.c: Required keyspan firmware image (USA19QI) unavailable. usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan 1 port adapter usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan 2 port adapter usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Keyspan 4 port adapter keyspan.c: v1.1.4:Keyspan USB to Serial Converter Driver usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1d.1-1.1 address 5 -- disconnected -- usbserial.c: Keyspan - (without firmware) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 -- reconnected -- ub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1.1, assigned address 6 usbserial.c: Keyspan - (without firmware) converter detected keyspan.c: Required keyspan firmware image (USA19QI) unavailable. I found a patch for the 2.4.22 kernel on the Keyspan page, so I tried to apply this patch to my default Debian 2.4.23 kernel. It gave me errors so I don't think this is correct. http://www.keyspan.com/support/linux/files/currentversion/patch/kspatch2003oct02 Thanks for any help. Bill
