----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic K2VCO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Support - K3, K2?
Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote:
This is a bit of a rant, I must admit, I am mystified by the desire for
USB inside an HF radio.
Agreed. From the point of view of the manufacturer, there is the big
headache of having to provide drivers for the various operating systems --
and versions of operating systems. Do we want Elecraft to spend valuable
staff time making sure that working drivers are available for Windows 95
through Vista, the various Mac OS versions, Linux, and who knows what?
Ok, I finally got pulled into this debate; in the case of Linux and most
likely MacOS X, if the USB Chip is supported by the OS Kernel, there won't
be a problem. I know the FTDI chips are supported natively in Linux (not
sure what kernel version offhand) from reading it on several Yahoo Groups
that I'm in that are part of projects that use that chipset.
Matthew Pitts
N8OHU
K2 #5956
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