I use my PS+ on a USB port via a cheap usb-serial lead I picked up from Ebay

Works fine and I've never had any problems with lost communication/errors
etc.

The usb-serial lead has its own driver and the win2k machine I run sees it
as COM3 - the MPLAB software just transmits the info to this port and job
done.

Dom 

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
John Piccirillo
Sent: 20 May 2005 03:40
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: [PIC] re: USB Driver


>Second, uh...the PS+ doesn't have a USB port. Are you using an adapter 
>or something? I don't think Microchip would supply drivers for a 
>product they don't make.
>
>I might be missing something though, so feel free to correct me :)

   True the PS+ doesn't have a USB port but my, and most, laptops do so I
use a USB to Serial adapter (Keyspan).  I think Microchip recognizes
this situation.   Surely I'm not the only one trying to communicate to a
PicStart+ from a laptop that only has USB serial.  How is it done ?

Thanks,

John-

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