[Xastir] TM-D700A with a Mac

[Portal Chris]

FWIW, I've had fair luck with the IOGear USB to Serial adapter on my Dell
Inspiron 1100, talking to a KPC3+ and Garmin 12CXL.

kd7bcv 

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:archer at eskimo.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:52 AM
To: John Laxson
Cc: Keith Kaiser; xastir at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir] TM-D700A with a Mac

On Fri, 13 May 2005, John Laxson wrote:

> It works beautifully.  I use an IOGear GUC232A USB-Serial adapter.
> Configure Xastir for a "Serial TNC w/GPS on AUX port".  If you use the 
> IOGear, the serial port will be either /dev/cu.usbserial or /dev/ 
> cu.usbserial0.  Set the TNC config files to tnc-startup.d700 and tnc- 
> stop.d700 and you'll be in good shape.

Be _real_ picky about your USB-Serial adapter.  Some have been reported to
work great, others not so great.  I've seen Keyspan listed in the "great"
category, Belkin in the "not-so-great".  I don't use USB myself, so have no
direct experience.  Just ask around before you buy adapters.  Verify they
work before you buy if you can, or make sure they have a good
return/exchange policy.

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