FWIW, I have one of these and I have used it on my WinXP and Win7 machines without a hitch. Of course all of my USB<>RS232 adapters (FTDI and Prolific) work without a hitch. Having not used Linux, YMMV.
Best regards, Fred, N7FMH > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Wells > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 00:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Hardware > > Thanks for the suggestion re FTDI. I already have a powered > hub and, in fact, the RPi runs from it. I've been evaluating > soundmodem and although I can see traffic with > soundmodemconfig, results are generally quite disappointing > with regard to reliability and repeatability. I have similar > disappointment with my main computer, not just the RPi so > I've decided TNCs of one sort or another is the way to go. > > Ray vk2tv > > On 21/08/12 21:20, Andrew Errington wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:35:18 Ray Wells wrote: > >> I'm setting up a Raspberry Pi to use as an aprs gateway > (30m, 2m and > >> 2m satgate). > >> > >> Does anyone on the list have any thoughts on using a USB to 4 port > >> RS232 adapter to provide serial ports for TNCs. The RPi > has only USB. > >> > >> Ray vk2tv > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Xastir mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > Should be fine, but I would make two recommendations (not > that I am in > > the same situation, but here's what I would do if I was). > > > > 1) Use a powered USB hub > > This will reduce the load on the RPi PSU and circuitry. > > 2) Use FTDI-based USB-to-serial-converters Each one has (or should > > have) a unique serial number which can be queried by udev. You can > > use this feature to ensure that you can map the same device to the > > same port every time you reboot. > > > > 73, > > > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
