Re: pcmcia2serial or usb2serial

On 8/11/06, Mark White <jmarkw@ec.rr.com> wrote:

JB wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have a laptop without a serial port.  I've looked around and found that I can either buy a USB to SERIAL adaptor or a PCMCIA to SERIAL adapter.  Does anyone have a recommendation of which type and perhaps a model to look for?  I would like to be able to control both my radio and use TNC's with this laptop.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> 73
> ke6sls
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>
>
Radio Shark sells a USB to RS-232 adapter for around US$30 or US$40
bucks.  Yeah...the price is steep but Linux has drivers for it...at
least the 2.4 and 2.6 series does.

Mark - KE4QKT

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i have exactly this same problem. I have tried the uSB to serial adapters in the past on my desktop machine   all i was able to do was to make the PTT/serial switch functions work. I was never able to get any of the many adapters available to pass data from the computer to the modem or to fetch freq.&mode data from the radio using hamLib stuff.

harv, n9ai /AI9NL