[Xastir] USB Serial Port and Cygwin

[Thomas A. Dye III, CCP]

Thanks Jim,

I'm trying to connect a Kenwood D7 via a Targus USB Mobile port replicator
and the Kenwood supplied 9 pin serial cable.  The port replicator device
connects to the laptop via USB and has a parallel port, serial port and PS/2
mouse and keyboard connectors.  The laptop is a new IBM ThinkPad (no serial
or PS/2 ports).

Thanks to you, at least I know that Cygwin works with USB serial ports.  I
found very little info regarding the use of USB serial ports and Cygwin
anywhere on the net.

73

Tom
AB4EZ

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cour [mailto:K1ZC at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:42 AM
To: Thomas A. Dye III, CCP
Subject: Re: [Xastir] USB Serial Port and Cygwin


Tom,

What are you trying to connect - a USB device or a legacy item with the old
style 9-pin port?

I was able to interface an older Kantronics with a 9-pin interface through
my USB port using a hardware adapter configured as COM4.  I use the KeySpan
Serial Port adapter, which I bought at CompUSA for about $40.  I thought it
was overpriced at the time, but all my legacy hardware works great with my
new computer.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas A. Dye III, CCP" <tomdye at gulfatl.com>
To: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:18 AM
Subject: [Xastir] USB Serial Port and Cygwin



Has anyone been able to get Xastir to work with a USB serial port on Cygwin?
I've tried /dev/ttyS3 and /dev/com4 with no luck (serial port shows up as
com4 and works on my laptop under Win2K).

Thanks,

Tom
AB4EZ

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