[Elecraft] KUSB for K3

[James austin]

Windows loads USB drivers based on the vendor id and product id reported by 
the device. Are you implying that MacOS and Linux do it differently, by 
saying the driver used is based on the chip?

73,

Jim

>
>So, getting USB to work depends on the following:
>
>1. the chip(s) implementing the USB port in your computer;
>2. the driver for the chip implementing the USB port in your computer;
>3. the chip(s) implementing the serial-to-USB adaptor;
>4. the driver provided with the serial-to-USB adaptor.
>
>If you are using a MacOS, Linux, or a flavor of UNIX you will find  that 
>there tend to be only a few generic drivers for this since the  drivers are 
>based on the chip(s) used. Windows requires a vendor- specific driver for 
>each device. The latter means that even if you  get the same hardware 
>(serial-to-USB converter) from two different  vendors (generic Taiwanese 
>serial-to-USB adaptor), you need two  different drivers for Windows but 
>only one generic driver with MacOS,  Linux, or *NIX.
>
>73 de Brian, WB6RQN
>Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com
>