[Elecraft] Give us a network interface

[Brendan Minish]

USB  has it place but if it's 'just' to get rid of the serial port by
moving the Serial/USB conversion inside the radio then I don't see the
point 

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 15:44 -0400, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> The problem of insisting on Ham radio equipment manufactures
> supporting the patently NON-standard USB standard is driving up
> mamufacturer's costs and running into problems every time the OS has
> to be patched to get around some security hack. Followed by Wayne
> having to upgrade and recertify the Elecraft drivers before the fix
> can be distributed.  Microsoft is NOT paying for this stuff.

What's Microsoft got to do with it ;-) 
In linux USB hardware support is in general very good indeed where
vendors publish in full the specs needed to create a driver, it's a bit
less good (to non-existent) where vendors treat the interface spec as
proprietary.
With USB serial adapters (and USB soundcards ) I haven't yet met a
single one that does not 'just work' with recent kernels. Windows on the
other hand is a bloody nightmare with many USB devices and usb serial
converters. 

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73
Brendan EI6IZ