[Logic] PCI serial card

2002年9月12日 20:53:29 -0400

Steve,
I would suggest going to the Lava site and making sure your motherboard is
compatible with the Lava card you think you might use. I run an AMD Athlon
and my chipset isn't supported for ANY of the Lava cards. Good thing I
checked before putting out the bucks. I was looking at the 4-port and the
8-port card before discovering the incompatibility problem. If yours is
supported, and you think you might buy one, get the board with the newer
uart, its the more expensive one. If you need the model numbers I can
probably dig them up again.
Ultimately I went with USB-RS232 converter cables. They are all not the
same either. I would query the group here and find someone that has the rig
your planning to interface to, then get the same cable they have. I
"quickly" bought a converter cable from a local computer store, it worked
like a champ with the FT1000MP, but generated more noise than a blender on
VHF, it was really bad. I bought a much better designed and manufactured
cable (quiet as a church mouse), it didn't work with the FT1000MP, but works
with the TNC, RIgblaster, etc, etc. So I just use the com port for the
FT1000 and the USB converter(s) for everything else. I prefer USB for these
serial devices, its fast and you don't have any IRQ problems. Others
may/will disagree, its really to each his own. If you go with a com card
other then the Lava, make sure it supports IRQ sharing.
Good Luck,
73, de Brad N8GLS
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Julio Peralta
Sent: Thursday, 12 September, 2002 6:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Logic] PCI serial card
Check out the Lava octopus 550 card it can be found at www.lavalink.com
Julio
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: [Logic] PCI serial card
>> Well now that ive got the dual monitors working Im onto mulitiple serial
> ports. I had everything working on my old system that was using a 4 com
port
> ISA card but it wont work with the new system using PCI -
>> Im running Windows ME on this system and I have one PCI slot left open.
What
> brand of card are you guys using to obtain 4 additional Com or serial
> ports. Where did you buy them?
> Unless its easier to go USB without conflicts? Im using the two built
in
> serial ports already so Im hoping to buy a plug and play card with out
alot
> of hassels setting the com ports as I dont know what im doing with these
> dang computers...Thank God for system restore to a earlier date that I
found
> out about:-)
> Any help appreciated, either here or direct. 73 / Steve N6TT
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