brltty driver interferes with USB serial dongles

Same problem here with TMote Sky sensor motes (http://www.moteiv.com/products/tmotesky.php). This is what happens when I try to plug one:

[ 1442.540000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial Device
[ 1442.540000] ftdi_sio 1-2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[ 1442.540000] drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: Detected FT232BM
[ 1442.540000] usb 1-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 1442.540000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ftdi_sio
[ 1442.540000] drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: v1.4.3:USB FTDI Serial Converters Driver
[ 1442.752000] usb 1-2: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by ftdi_sio while 'brltty' sets config #1
[ 1442.756000] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 1442.756000] ftdi_sio 1-2:1.0: device disconnected

I also had to uninstall the brltty package.

noting package name and marking confirmed since others can reproduce it...

Note: yes it should always be installed by default, because it is meant for blind users to be able to use their computer. Without it, they wouldn't be able to even run apt-get or synaptic... So the solution is really to remove the guilty USB ID from the hotplug/udev rule.

This is still a problem on Gutsy. It's highly annoying, any serial USB device (for instance USB to serial adapters, but also the Artec Group's LPC dongle) is affected by this.

Can this *please* be fixed? Is there a way to detect brltty hardware in a more intelligent way, and not just attach to anything that looks like a USB serial device?

This problem isn't only on ubuntu, it's on debian as well, should a bug report be made there, too?
Shouldn't packages be checked for faults like these?

Skerit, le Sat 24 Jan 2009 17:15:41 -0000, a écrit :
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 84139 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84139
>
> This problem isn't only on ubuntu, it's on debian as well, should a bug report be made there, too?

I don't think so: on debian brltty is _not_ installed by default, only
people having braille displays would install it. The combination of
owning both a USB serial dongle _and_ a braille display is very rare and
such people would know how to tackle it anyway.

> Shouldn't packages be checked for faults like these?

Ideally yes, but it's hard to track that automatically: you'd have to
somehow parse the source code to know which identifiers are used.

Samuel