freebsd stable - Sep 2008 - Keyspan USB serial adapter

Hi,

I'm on the market for a USB serial adapter.  The Keyspan USA-19HS gets a
lot of good reviews for its performance, but I've noticed previous Keyspan
models have a history of not supporting FreeBSD due to firmware issues. 
The 19HS is listed in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs with nothing noted about
firmware (as opposed to the older 19WQ).  Can I assume that the firmware
problems of the past aren't relevant to the current 19HS?

Can anyone confirm if a USA-19HS works on FreeBSD 7-STABLE right now?


Thanks,
Aragon

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:33:22PM +0200, Aragon Gouveia
wrote:
> I'm on the market for a USB serial adapter.  The Keyspan USA-19HS gets
a
> lot of good reviews for its performance, but I've noticed previous
Keyspan
> models have a history of not supporting FreeBSD due to firmware issues. 
> The 19HS is listed in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs with nothing noted about
> firmware (as opposed to the older 19WQ).  Can I assume that the firmware
> problems of the past aren't relevant to the current 19HS?
> 
> Can anyone confirm if a USA-19HS works on FreeBSD 7-STABLE right now?
Since you're still in the market: I've heard wonderful things about any
of the USB serial adapters that use the Prolific chip; see uplcom(4).
Others apparently are known for dropping characters on occasion.

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