the Linux driver (not TI's, so not their fault)
Bull. It's certainly TI's fault for not support linux directly in the first place. I don't know what they were smoking when they though they could ship a windows-only USB/Serial chip!
If FTDI can ship drivers for 3+ major operating systems, Then TI ouhght to be able to do it to! (Although there are a lot of TI documents that sorta read like any actual programmers we kept far away...
If you had an EZ430-F2013, I believe that the standard firware should work OK. The second chip does serial to spy-bi-wire.
If you had an EZ430-RF2500 set or the wristwatch set, then there is special coding in that chip; If you now have standard serial code, you may have lost everything. (but it might be possible to put back.
I have discount codes some development tools; let me know if anyone is interested in Chronos wireless (915 MHz)watch @$25, ez430-rf2500 wireless dec kit (2.4GHz) @$25, CCS4 MCU edition ($250), or generalized JTAG interface ($50)