ah ok thanks but I tried another adaptator and it works so it's fine.
Now I can see the ACK logon.
 
Eric Cathelinaud

2009/5/21 Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:14:43PM +0200, Eric Cathelinaud wrote:
> I found the list of serial/USB adaptators in the menuconfig of the kernel
> 2.6.27.4.
> Mine (USB Moschip 7715) is not in the list. I will try another one.

A grep through the kernel source results:

drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c: if (product == MOSCHIP_DEVICE_ID_7715)

It seems this driver is part of linux since 2002, i.e. at least since v2.6.19
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