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

[Chase Turner]

It's funny you mention that Jason, the two FTDI's I had both failed within a
year.

Keyspan keeps rocking- installed its drivers and can hot swap the connection
all day (just checked to confirm), so I still don't understand how you
misconfigured your machine.  Maybe not the newest drivers?

If you can get any time out of the FTDI, hey, great!  The Keyspan USB/Serial
adapter is still a solid choice for people who would like to use Xastir on
OSX Snow Leopard.

Best,
Chase
W4TI

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Chase Turner <ke4qdl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why would I need to plug it into a different port?
>
> Because you use a laptop, and you want to grab the device and plug it
> in to any available slot (sort of the idea with USB), instead of being
> forced to plug it in to the same place every time.
>
> > That isn't a functional
> > requirement on my part.  And if it isn't anyone else's, I fail to see the
> > problem.  I didn't notice any difficulty plugging it into any port of my
> > computer and using it, fwiw.
>
> Just because you didn't notice doesn't mean it wasn't there.  I've
> been using a half dozen or so of these devices over the past 10 years,
> and the issue is a serious pain if your hardware configuration changes
> any at all.
>
> Another "feature" of the Keyspan is that it's the most expensive model
> I've seen.
>
> They've also got longevity issues.  I just pulled one out of my laptop
> bad for a little demo, but it was dead.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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