> Folks, > I've got a need to have more than one RS232 hooked up to the "legacy free" > laptop I now have. Bad enough to have the sound interface, the webcam, the > parallel, etc. but I'm running out of USB hubs.. > > Any experiences good/bad with any of the 2 or 4 port USB<>serial > widgets. Likewise for parallel (although I confess I've never seen any of > those with multiple outputs, but never hurts to ask) > > >
You might want to go up a level in your thinking, also. I have had trouble there, various. Hubs are the spawn of Satan. Stay away from them at all costs. I think I wrote about this recently. I have had mixed results using a PCMCIA card to add USB ports. I am not running the latest software, but 1.4.1 and 1.4.4 both got confused about the added ports. They were unable to find the Extigy when I had these added. I got by with having the PCMCIA card unplugged, bringing up the SDR console, and plugging it in (I was running things like mouse and keyboard off the PCMCIA part). I don't know why the Flex code got confused. OTOH, maybe it was Windows. Larry WO0Z
