[Xastir] Macintosh Snow Leopard + Xastir 2 + Kenwood TM-D710A = ?

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Chase Turner <ke4qdl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't speak to what the proper settings are for the Kenwood, but I can
> tell you I never could get any serial/USB to work other than the Keyspan
> one.

FTDI works even better than Keyspan.

Prolific sucks.  Really sucks.  As in their driver is the only
software that has ever cause a kernel dump on my mac.  That was a few
years ago, but I'm holding a grudge. :|

The Prolific doesn't have a unique identifier (serial number, etc), so
the device special file name will be different depending on
enumeration order (if you have more than one, and you want one for the
TNC and one for the GPS, right?)

The Keyspan devices either don't have a serial number or the driver
doesn't make use of it.  The driver does at least make the device
special file's name unique to the location of the device in the USB
tree, so it'll have the same name if you plug it in the same way ever
time.  Plug it in to a different port, though, and it's a different
name.

The FTDI is hands down the best device.  The serial number is part of
the device special file name, so it doesn't matter when or where you
plug it in - the name is always the same.

Unfortunately the linux FTDI driver doesn't do this, but udev is your
friend to solve that problem - udev can find and use the serial
number.

-Jason
kg4wsv