Jerry Volpe wrote:
_Keyspan USB 4-Port Serial Adapter (Model USA-49WLC)
<http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5395>
_Lots of inexpensive USB to serial adapters are available and most of
them work for general purpose serial communications. Trouble is lots of
times we are asking our Serial port to actually work as a 'switch'
activating a PTT or Key line, etc. Most of the USB to serial adapters
out there won't work in these applications. Keyspan greats a great
product. Works on Macintosh, Windows and Linux. They have the typical
single USB to serial as well as a single USB to four serial ports. They
may even have a two port version (don't recall). The keyspan devices are
not as cheap as some of the import ones but you will never have to worry
if they will do the job.
73,
Jerry, KG6TT
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My new Dell laptop has only USB ports, so I bought a Keyspan port
replicator that has a serial port, a parallel port, and two more USB ports.
I was able to get my old HP printer working through the Keyspan parallel
port, but not the (even older) IBM scanner. More significantly for this
group, I was not able to get Linux's Xlog to communicate with the Orion
II through the serial port. (This might be a Hamlib issue.) I just
couldn't find a way to specify the proper port.
--John K3GHH
Registered Linux User #291592
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