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serial to usb problem
Name: teddy Date: March 27, 2002 at 18:29:26 Pacific
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I have a sony vaio sr33k. No serial port. I purchased a navigation software woth gps receiver/antenna from travroute that uses serial port. I am using a friends serial to usb adapter but it cannot connect since I do not have a serial hardware in my pc. Is there any other options?. I am using win XP thanks..
Name: Dick Johnson Date: March 27, 2002 at 20:06:23 Pacific
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Don't understand the problem. I use both a serial/USB and a scsi/USB adapter cables with excellent results. You have to install the software for the converter cable and the device (serial or scsi) show up in the operating system as a USB device---period. Once it's thru the conversion the operating system doesn't care what the original source is/was!
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Response Number 2
Name: teddy Date: March 27, 2002 at 22:33:24 Pacific
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In the device manager it states that it loaded the software drivers successfully but it does not detect the hardware. The cable was plugged in tho. I installede this cable and drivers to my other pc with a existing serial port but not use it and it went thru ok. No yellow exclamation . Maybe my setting are loaded wrong.
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Response Number 3
Name: teddy Date: March 28, 2002 at 00:45:11 Pacific
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I did some more testing. Installed on friends pc with win xp home edition ( I have prfessional) and it worked with his but not with mine. Might be the drivers with the professional edition.
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Response Number 4
Name: teddy Date: March 28, 2002 at 01:02:42 Pacific
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I did some more testing. Installed on friends pc with win xp home edition ( I have prfessional) and it worked with his but not with mine. Might be the drivers with the professional edition.
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Response Number 5
Name: mitime Date: March 28, 2002 at 07:34:20 Pacific
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Unlikely that you cna blame the differnce between Home and Pro. There really isn't that great a difference between the two. Mike
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