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Re: Linux/PPC: RS232 with new PowerBook.



On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:13:35AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:12:50PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> The keyspan device works quite well under MacOS.  Drivers would have to be
> writen for it to work under Linux.  It would probably take some work
> negotiating with Keyspan, since the device requires a firmware download
> before it can be used.

After some more investigation:

The device does not require firmware to be downloaded.  This means it is a
simple matter of determining the protocol communicated over the USB bus.  I
may investigate this.

David Brown



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