Drew Maurer wrote:
> Very interesting; yes its a Prolific USB adapter.

You might have mentioned you were using a USB to RS-232 adapter in the firs=
t
place.

Try it directly without the adapter.  If this PC doesn't have a serial port=
,
try it on one that does.  This isn't meant to be a long term solution, but
will help diagnose what is going on.

A few years back Wouter sent me a USB to serial adapter to try out.  At
first it didn't work at all.  I dug around, found the latest driver,
installed that on Windows 2000, and it then basically worked as long as you
had RTS and CTS looped back (or something like that, it was a few years
ago).


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