[aprssig] Re: USB to RS232 adapters? (again)

[J. Lance Cotton]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:42:40 -0500, Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
> Best general purpose USB-to-Serial port adapter device?
> 
> I Hate to ask that question becase it has been asked so
> many times before, but I didnt need it then.  Now I need
> to buy some for the student lab...

Well... The question has always resulted (not just in this sig) with
"xx works for me", "yy works for me", "I've had problems with xx, but
zz works for me". Hardly any of the "works for me" statements include
such things as what programs are doing the accessing (in other words,
are they manipulating the pins by address, or are they just opening a
datastream), what operating sytsem, etc.

In the context of the original question, the operating system is Linux
and the program is "soundmodem". I am not sure how soundmodem accesses
the port, so I may have been premature on my assertion that the USB
Rascal cable won't work in this situation. Anyone familiar with C or
C++ could peruse the source code for the program and figure it out. Or
just try it.

For general purpose serial port usage in both Linux and Windows 2k
(and XP), my personal experience is only with one particular model, a
4-port from Keyspan. It works for all datastreaming type applications,
but I've never tried it with any pin-twiddling applications. My data
input therefore is pretty useless :-)

-Lance KJ5O

> We know that many of them dont exactly replicate all
> of the serial port, Is there any that are better than others?
> thanks
> Bob
> 
> >>> josecanuc at gmail.com 2/11/05 12:39:13 PM >>>
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:16:42 -0500 (EST), William McKeehan
> <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> wrote:
> > Is there a guide for setting up an AX.25 soundcard interface using
> the RASCAL
> > hardware with Linux?
> >
> > I have the AX.25 interface working with receive, but I do not see how
> to
> > configure it for transmit; some pointers would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> So you already have set up soundmodem? Did you get the USB or Serial
> (RS232) version of the Rascal?
> 
> If the USB version, you are out of luck. If the serial version, you
> should configure soundmodem to key by whatever your serial port is
> (/dev/ttyS0 or etc.)
> 
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