From: Brian Winter (brian@dbstart.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 02:44:31 EST
Hi Marty,
I have some experience with USB/serial and have used it for various
development projects to do with gps receivers, wlan and pcr1000, with
varying degrees of success with various drivers. I have found that if you
push the port very hard it is quite easy to make it misbehave (excuse the
generaliastion). It is documented that, although all the bits you put into
one end do make it to the other, timing is not necessarily preserved - this
might mean for instance that if your software is expecting a response (eg
from your pcr1000) within a certain time, this would be acheived with a
standard serial port but might not via usb. And the pcr1000 is very chatty.
I have had much success, but if it won't work - in my experience it just
won't work. I wouldn't be too suprised if Bonito won't support this - I
wouldn't either, its a minefield !!. If you have a pcmcia slot on your
laptop, you will have much more success with a pcmcia serial card. Try
http://www.socketcom.com/product/serial.asp or similar - I've used this
with TalkPCR successfully.
bw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marty Grove" <martygrove@cfl.rr.com>
To: <pcr-1000@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:47 AM
Subject: RE: [PCR-1000] PCR 1000 / Radiocom
I also have been disappointed with the support from Bonita over with
Radiocom. I originally purchased the software 4.0, then 5.0 ($$$) before
they started bundling it with the PCR1000. I ran it on a old Toshiba laptop
for a while, then later upgraded my laptop. I no longer have a serial port
on my new laptop - but installed a USB to Serial converter. This item works
on virtually every other ex-serial item I have except RadioCom. I have
written several e-mails to Bonito about the possibility of a patch or some
correction so that I can use 5.0 on a machine with a USB to Serial cable,
but have never received a reply.
Has anyone else had any success using a USB to serial converter? Got any
tricks up your sleeve on how you got it to work?
Marty
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