Grr, I spent a bunch of time trying to compile the Moschip7703 driver and eventually did, but the darn usb to serial device I have simply won't work. Guess I'll get some more rosewill usb-serial connectors, they work in my experience.
usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
These helped:
http://readlist.com/lists/mythtv.org/mythtv-users/7/36048.html
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-December/159698.html
I gave up on this and the rosewill adapters arrived yesterday, still a little finicky, but I did get one to work.