[Elecraft] USB Support - K3, K2?

[Matthew D. Pitts]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vic K2VCO" <vic at rakefet.com>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Support - K3, K2?


> Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote:
>
>> This is a bit of a rant, I must admit, I am mystified by the desire for 
>> USB inside an HF radio.
>
> Agreed. From the point of view of the manufacturer, there is the big 
> headache of having to provide drivers for the various operating systems --  
> and versions of operating systems. Do we want Elecraft to spend valuable 
> staff time making sure that working drivers are available for Windows 95 
> through Vista, the various Mac OS versions, Linux, and who knows what?

Ok, I finally got pulled into this debate; in the case of Linux and most 
likely MacOS X, if the USB Chip is supported by the OS Kernel, there won't 
be a problem. I know the FTDI chips are supported natively in Linux (not 
sure what kernel version offhand) from reading it on several Yahoo Groups 
that I'm in that are part of projects that use that chipset.

Matthew Pitts
N8OHU
K2 #5956