Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> 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?

I will report the details of my Windows 2000 setup when I get back to my
Embed office this afternoon.  I'll also try installing the new drivers
someone else mentioned.  It would be nice to get to the bottom of this, and
even nicer if we can find a USB to serial adapter that can be counted on to
work with just RX, TX, and GND reliably.

The specifics of my XP setup will have to wait until I get home sometime
much later tonight.


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