Hello Robert,
I just created that page after I had to go digging through the mailing list for the Windows 7 instructions and couldn't find any help for XP.
Yes.. and now we can point posts with "my radio won't talk to Chirp" to this Wiki entry! Thanks so much!
I wasn't sure if I should get ambitious enough to cover udev rules for creating symlinks. I use them for thinks like the Arduino and Bus Pirate, but I generally don't bother for the radio cables. OTOH, might be opening a can of worms...
Very true though I really think that aliased devices really make things easier and more intuitive in the long term.
Your page looks like a great resource, thanks. I'll have to spend some time reading though it. I recognized the domain TrinityOS.com, I think I remember reading IP masq, ipchains other firewall tutorials there ages ok, maybe 1999-2000?
Yup.. I'm still the maintainer of the old ldp.org IPMASQ Howto - http://www.trinityos.com/LINUX/index-linux.html#ipmasq I'm also the author of the aging TrinityOS guide - http://www.trinityos.com/LINUX/index-linux.html#trinityos and my newest effort is the Linux Digital Modes doc - http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/index-ham.html#centosdigitalmodes
There's lots of other stuff there too!
--David