It's funny you mention that Jason, the two FTDI's I had both failed within a year.
Keyspan keeps rocking- installed its drivers and can hot swap the connection all day (just checked to confirm), so I still don't understand how you misconfigured your machine. Maybe not the newest drivers? If you can get any time out of the FTDI, hey, great! The Keyspan USB/Serial adapter is still a solid choice for people who would like to use Xastir on OSX Snow Leopard. Best, Chase W4TI On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Chase Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why would I need to plug it into a different port? > > Because you use a laptop, and you want to grab the device and plug it > in to any available slot (sort of the idea with USB), instead of being > forced to plug it in to the same place every time. > > > That isn't a functional > > requirement on my part. And if it isn't anyone else's, I fail to see the > > problem. I didn't notice any difficulty plugging it into any port of my > > computer and using it, fwiw. > > Just because you didn't notice doesn't mean it wasn't there. I've > been using a half dozen or so of these devices over the past 10 years, > and the issue is a serious pain if your hardware configuration changes > any at all. > > Another "feature" of the Keyspan is that it's the most expensive model > I've seen. > > They've also got longevity issues. I just pulled one out of my laptop > bad for a little demo, but it was dead. > > -Jason > kg4wsv > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
