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Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle



I successfully used my Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle back in 2007 running Ubuntu.

After several OS reinstalls, I am now on Debian Squeeze, but I am having some problems getting it to work.

Is there some user error involved here or should I open a bug?

- After I plug in the USB-to-serial dongle (dmesg):

[ 2615.044105] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 2615.189670] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=06cd, idProduct=0118
[ 2615.189678] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 2615.189868] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2615.192764] keyspan 3-1:1.0: Keyspan - (without firmware) converter detected
[ 2615.192776] usb 3-1: firmware: requesting keyspan/usa19qw.fw
[ 2615.200679] usb 3-1: Required keyspan firmware image (keyspan/usa19qw.fw) unavailable.


- No device file (/dev/ttyUSB0) is created:
$ ls -l /dev|grep -i usb
$

- According to:
http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
keyspan/usa19qw.fw is in keyspan.ko

$ /sbin/modprobe -l|grep -i keyspan
kernel/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.ko
kernel/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.ko
kernel/drivers/input/misc/keyspan_remote.ko

$ lsmod |grep keyspan
keyspan                23066  0
usbserial              22100  1 keyspan
usbcore                98733  7 btusb,keyspan,usbserial,uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

$ lsmod|grep -i usb
btusb                   8077  2
bluetooth              36319  9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
usbcore                98733  5 btusb,uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base                4541  1 usbcore


$ uname -r
2.6.32-5-686

$ aptitude search firmware|grep ^i
i   firmware-iwlwifi                - Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 3945, 4
i   firmware-linux                  - Binary firmware for various drivers in the
i   firmware-linux-free             - Binary firmware for various drivers in the
i   firmware-linux-nonfree          - Binary firmware for various drivers in the


$ aptitude search usb|grep ^i
i   libusb-0.1-4                    - userspace USB programming library        
i A libusb-1.0-0                    - userspace USB programming library        
i A libusbmuxd1                     - USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod
i A usb-modeswitch                  - mode switching tool for controlling "flip
i A usb-modeswitch-data             - mode switching data for usb-modeswitch   
i A usbmuxd                         - USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod
i   usbutils                        - Linux USB utilities                      
i A xserver-xorg-video-sisusb       - X.Org X server -- SiS USB display driver 







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