On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Chase Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't speak to what the proper settings are for the Kenwood, but I can > tell you I never could get any serial/USB to work other than the Keyspan > one.
FTDI works even better than Keyspan. Prolific sucks. Really sucks. As in their driver is the only software that has ever cause a kernel dump on my mac. That was a few years ago, but I'm holding a grudge. :| The Prolific doesn't have a unique identifier (serial number, etc), so the device special file name will be different depending on enumeration order (if you have more than one, and you want one for the TNC and one for the GPS, right?) The Keyspan devices either don't have a serial number or the driver doesn't make use of it. The driver does at least make the device special file's name unique to the location of the device in the USB tree, so it'll have the same name if you plug it in the same way ever time. Plug it in to a different port, though, and it's a different name. The FTDI is hands down the best device. The serial number is part of the device special file name, so it doesn't matter when or where you plug it in - the name is always the same. Unfortunately the linux FTDI driver doesn't do this, but udev is your friend to solve that problem - udev can find and use the serial number. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
