[Ham-Mac] Keyspan adapters

[Don Agro]

Hi Chris,

On 26-May-06, at 5:18 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:

> My own experience has been that adapters using the FTDI chipset  
> work the best on the Mac, with Keyspan perhaps coming in second  
> place. Keyspan used the be the best years ago, but I've had reports  
> of issues with kernel panics, especially sleep related.

The FTDI devices are great, but I have never had a report of a kernel  
panic with the correct Keyspan driver loaded - and I have 8 of them  
connected at all times :)

In hundreds of USB/Serial support emails - not one can be traced to  
the Keyspan devices.

There have been one or two bad pieces of hardware (in both products)  
of course, and several cabling errors and incorrect drivers loaded -  
but there is nothing wrong with the Keyspan devices or drivers as far  
as I know.

The biggest headache for me was the failure of the FTDI drivers to  
properly enumerate on system startup forcing everyone to unplug and  
re-plug the device after each startup. FTDI finally did fix this  
problem earlier this year.

I guess as in all things YMMV, but I would have to say that properly  
installed with the correct drivers and cabling - both the FTDI and  
Keyspan chipsets work flawlessly.


73 Don Agro VE3VRW

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