[Ham-Mac] USB to Serial Ports

[slater tubman]

Reading with interest the comments on USB/Serial interfaces. I have  
two Prolific units and both work fine - at least I think they do,  
unless I am totally missing something in the programs. They were what  
was available when I needed them.

Slater -VE5OA

On 8-Dec-08, at 2:03 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:

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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