[Xastir] Tnc, connection choices

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:50:23PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:30:19PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > 
> > The TNC-X USB model just has a USB/RS232 adapter built in - it's not
> > like you have specific USB drivers for a TNC.  Unfortunately he chose
> > to use a custom vendor ID (at one time, at least), so you must get
> > customized drivers from him, instead of using the generic driver for
> > that chipset.  Not sure how that works out with linux.
> 
> I didn't realize this -- I had noted at one time that the chipset in the
> TNC-X was one that was supported under linux kernels, so just assumed it would
> be OK.  Obviously, if he's got some custom tweakage in there then perhaps it
> won't work.

But according to the page (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm) linked to 
at the TNC-X site (http://www.tnc-x.com/USB4.htm), the custom Linux driver was 
only needed for 2.4 kernels, and it's stated that support is already 
included in 2.6 kernels.  Perhaps someone here actually owns one and uses it
with the USB module under Linux?

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