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| Topic: | usb to serial adapter This thread has 52 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 30. |
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| Post 16 made on Monday October 28, 2002 at 19:13 |
rmalbers Founding Member |
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I have a no name brand of USB to serial (I'm not kidding there is no name on the box, it's generic) Anyway I've had it a long time and could not get it to work with any RS232 software. I tried it after reading all these various USB serial adapter thread and now IT WORKS. I'm faily convinced Microsoft fixed something in the Win 2000 service pack 3. I tried everything and it didn't work until after I put SP3 on and then it work without changing anything, just plugging it in. If anyone tried before without success on Win 2000, try again after SP3 and report the results.
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| Post 17 made on Tuesday October 29, 2002 at 12:23 |
Marc Macchiaverna Lurking Member |
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I have the latest drivers for the Belkin USB to serial adapter. still nothing. Belkin tech support says it's not their driver. Either Belkin is full of it, MS has a problem, or it is ProntoPro that needs an update for windows 2000.
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| Post 18 made on Tuesday October 29, 2002 at 13:11 |
rmalbers Founding Member |
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Marc: Are you running with Win 2000 SP3?
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| Post 19 made on Tuesday October 29, 2002 at 15:28 |
Marc Macchiaverna Lurking Member |
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| Post 20 made on Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 13:20 |
rmalbers Founding Member |
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FWIW: My USB to Serial device is using:
Driver Provider: FTDI
Driver Version: 1.0.2082.0
(Might be a hint to who made it?)
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| Post 21 made on Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 13:46 |
DS ELEKTRO Lurking Member |
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Does someone know if there is a possibility to program the pronto, with pronto-edit, by a USB cable? I hava a laptop with 3 USB outlets and no serial port. I only have a BELKIN SERIAL ADAPTER for converting the USB to Serial. There is only one device that is not responding to the adapter and it is the pronto... Is there someone with the same problem? You can also reply to [email protected]
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| Post 22 made on Wednesday October 30, 2002 at 20:32 |
Dave Houston RF Expert |
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On 10/30/02 13:20.30, rmalbers said...
FWIW: My USB to Serial device is using:
Driver Provider: FTDI
Driver Version: 1.0.2082.0
(Might be a hint to who made it?) It's using a chip made by FTDI in Scotland. http://www.ftdichip.com/It's a brilliant and inexpensive way to USB-enable legacy hardware. They also make a USB/serial converter which they call an evaluation unit. It sells for about $35-40 and is one of the best adapters I have used. If you buy it from their US distributor, place your order by phone - their online ordering is NOT secure.
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| Post 23 made on Sunday November 3, 2002 at 10:58 |
Gaz Shuker Lurking Member |
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I am using a Marantz RC5000 1Mb (Setup V2.3, Sys V4.8, App V5.1) and have just updated to Win XP SP1. I was previously using ME OK.
Now I cannot get my remote to talk to my PC at all, via serial COM1 or using my serial to PDA USB, (I read elsewhere that people are having trouble with serial to USB connectors). Does anyone have any ideas?
I usually run an infrared device on COM1 and think I have managed to tell XP not to run this.
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| Post 24 made on Monday November 4, 2002 at 02:08 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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You may have to tell your BIOS that COM1 isn't infrared.
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| Post 25 made on Monday November 4, 2002 at 04:03 |
Eigeny Oulianov Founding Member |
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I'm using a controllers from FTDI and Maxstro under win98. FTDI connects great with Pronto, but my Crestron IR learner CNXLIR operates only via USB>serial converter from Maxstro. I suppose, both of that controllers has a very short internal data buffer unlike on-board UARTs, so you cannot have a real guarantee that your current functional adapter will support new devices or saves functionality at new OS...
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| Post 26 made on Monday November 4, 2002 at 06:22 |
Dave Houston RF Expert |
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The FTDI chip has a 384 byte receive buffer and 128 byte transmit buffer.
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| Post 27 made on Saturday January 11, 2003 at 08:39 |
I could not get the Belkin F5U103 to work with my Gateway Solo 9550 laptop. Following the advice on this site, I got the Keyspan USA-19QW. Works like a charm (had to map it to COM1, though).
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| Post 28 made on Wednesday June 25, 2003 at 14:22 |
Jim O'Neal Founding Member |
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i just spoke to "dave" at Marantz Customer service in Chicago on Monday (6-23-03) about the USB to 9-pin adapter issue. I stated that owned a 5000i and I was running Windows XP on a VAIO desktop that had no 9-pin serial port. "Dave" recomended the Radio Shack Adapter and told me that it had the least ammount of conflict. He also told me that I MUST configure it to COM PORT #1 if I expect it to work. My hats off to Dave for his help on this. I have not tried it yet, but if there is a problem, I will make another posting.
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| Post 29 made on Wednesday June 25, 2003 at 21:59 |
I'm running on COM2, no Problems.
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| Post 30 made on Wednesday June 25, 2003 at 22:04 |
Impaqt RC Moderator |
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On 06/25/03 21:59, TimothyCox said...
I'm running on COM2, no Problems. Just where in Touch Screen setup did you tell it to look for Com2? Registry Hack? Could be handy for me if I could get it working on Com2....
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