[Ham-Mac] USB to Serial Ports

[Chris Smolinski]

Some of the online sellers of cables do identify the chipset. Often 
they will have a download link for the driver, so you can download it 
first, and see what chipset they are using.

>Good point Chris. I would agree. FTDI Chipset would be my second 
>choice. I have had great success with your ICOM CI-V interface.
>http://www.blackcatsystems.com/usbciv/  Which uses the FTDI chipset.
>
>However, it not clear how you can tell whether a particular vendor 
>or USB to Serial is using FTDI chipset or not.  I "think"??? you can 
>tell when you plug it in to USB and use built-in System Profiler (in 
>Utilities Folder) to investigate USB buses and validate chipset 
>details.
>
>73
>Steve - VA3SPH
>
>On 8-Dec-08, at 1:56 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>
>>The Keyspan units are very good, I also have had excellent luck 
>>with adapters using the FTDI chipset, their OS X driver is very 
>>solid. I've had terrible luck with anything using the Prolific 
>>chipset. YMMV.
>
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Chris Smolinski
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