USB to Serial Adapter

[antonr01]

I want to install a USB to Serial Adapter on my notebook running XP. I
have a device that needs to see a real serial port. Should I need a
software driver for this or should it just work. I ask because I
bought the adapter, and my appplication cable does not want to
recognize the port.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I want to install a USB to Serial Adapter on my notebook running XP. I
have a device that needs to see a real serial port. Should I need a
software driver for this or should it just work. I ask because I
bought the adapter, and my appplication cable does not want to
recognize the port.

The device would have had to have been designed to use the USB-Serial
adapter. If it wasn't, then nothing less than a true serial port will work.


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[philo]

The device would have had to have been designed to use the USB-Serial
adapter. If it wasn't, then nothing less than a true serial port will
work.

That's not the way the serial replicators are sold...
they are "supposed" to emulate a true serial port...

If any specific drivers are needed...they should have been supplied with the
device...

Just wondering it it was detected and installed properly when it was
initially plugged into the USB port?

 

[V Green]

That's not the way the serial replicators are sold...
they are "supposed" to emulate a true serial port...

But they often don't. Even some serial ports on the PC
don't adhere to the RS-232 spec - they use 0 volts
as a signal level, which is not allowed by the spec, has to be
either a + voltage or a - voltage, 0 is an ambugious state.

The USB-serial stuff has the same problems. Try different
brands, some work better than others.

 

[antonr01]

Yes, it recognizes the driver I used and says it is installed.