> And are you able to make the converter transmit over RS-232 
> without the handshaking lines driven or looped back?

yes

> If so, please describe the details of your setup.

The hardware isn't very interesting: Three wires from the converter to
the MAX232 (GND, RxD, TxD).

I use XP, no SP's. The device manager says:

   ATEN USB to serial bridge (COM7)
      driver: ATEN 6-7-2003 2.0.0.18

   Prolific USB-to-serial comm port (COM9)
      driver: prolific 9-4-2002 1.5.0.0

The COM7 is the one I use most often, and is the same hardware I sent
you (as far as I can tell). COM9 is an older version, it works just as
well. IIRC one of the drivers is a leftover from a previous converter
which I bought in a local shop, which worked OK too. I *never* had
problems with any converter, so I never payed much attention to which
driver I used. I am quite interested to see this solved!

Olin (or anyone else who has problems on XP), can you tell me exactly
which driver you installed which caused problems, so I can try to
reproduce the problem?

Wouter van Ooijen

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