Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread kh6ty
Peter, A good, but expensive, solution is to get the SignaLink USB interface, which has digital VOX built in. This how I solved the same problem You can also get a C-media USB Sound Adapter and modify it to bring out a PTT line, which is a less expensive approach (

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Rick
Hi Peter, The Prolific company seems to make a very large number of these adapters that are then branded with different companies names. The old (large and expensive) Radio Shack USB adapter (about $40 here in the U.S.) was from this company. I am sure these products are available world wide.

RE: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread rojomn
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit? Hi Peter, The Prolific company seems to make a very large number of these adapters that are then branded with different companies names. The old (large and expensive) Radio Shack USB adapter (about $40 here in the U.S

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
Is that Linux or plain old Solaris? Does Wine work with it? 73, Jose, CO2JA --- Rick wrote: Incidentally, I burned an ISO from the new OpenSolaris Live and that seemed much better than Linux variants in terms of image quality. Even could handle my high end HP tower with Nvidia chipset.

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Russell Hltn
The Keyspan unit is a bit pricey at $40 list, but it's rated to be very compatible. It does have drivers for Vista but only lists 32-bit. It might be worth asking them about 64 bit compatibility. It does advertise compatibility with Mac and Linux http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa19hs/ On

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Rick
The understanding that I have is that Open Solaris is Sun's open version of Solaris and I think it may be equivalent. It is a Unix System V variant of Release 4 and no other System V code is available as open software. It is very significant that Ian Murdoch is now a major player at Sun. For

Re: [digitalradio] USB - RS232 adapter for Vista 64bit?

2008-05-09 Thread Jose A. Amador
Thank you, Rick. A friend and coworker told me that he achieved to make work his Nvidia card with Mandriva. I have not been able so far, using Mandriva Spring 2007. Mine is GeForce FX5200. I downloaded the driver pack, more than 100 MB. I have not been able to see where is the failure. Also,