Serial Ports

[Peter Seddon]

Hi All

Got a laptop running XP Home with no serial ports. Got a Belkin serial port
adapter which installs itself as Com 7!! I also have some software that
will only talk to Coms 1 to 4. Can I change the Belkin Com port to be Com 1,
or 2.

Ta for any help

Peter.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Ask Belkin



| Hi All
|
| Got a laptop running XP Home with no serial ports. Got a
Belkin serial port
| adapter which installs itself as Com 7!! I also have some
software that
| will only talk to Coms 1 to 4. Can I change the Belkin Com
port to be Com 1,
| or 2.
|
| Ta for any help
|
| Peter.
|
|

 

[Si Ballenger]

Hi All

Got a laptop running XP Home with no serial ports. Got a Belkin serial port
adapter which installs itself as Com 7!! I also have some software that
will only talk to Coms 1 to 4. Can I change the Belkin Com port to be Com 1,
or 2.

As long as you don't have any hardware serial ports showing, you
should be able to go tot he advanced serial port setup and using
the com port dropdown, assign it any number between 1 and 256.

 

[Peter Seddon]

As long as you don't have any hardware serial ports showing, you
should be able to go tot he advanced serial port setup and using
the com port dropdown, assign it any number between 1 and 256.

Cracked it by downloading the XP driver from Belkin. Cheers all

Peter.