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USB - Serial reliability

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2001-04-12 15:42 in General Discussion
Has anyone had any trouble doing USB to serial on laptops? I'm going to get
a laptop, but I can't find many that have serial.
-William


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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-04-10 02:52
    Look at the Dell laptops. I have an Inspiron 5000e PIII 700 running 98 SE
    and it has a serial port *and* USB. It works great via the printer port with
    a BS1 and though the serial port with a BS2sx. Haven't had the need / desire
    to try the USB.

    You can also by refurb units at a much cheaper price than new.
    Original Message

    > Has anyone had any trouble doing USB to serial on laptops? I'm going to
    get
    > a laptop, but I can't find many that have serial.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-04-10 03:02
    I could not get a laptop serial port to comm. with the BS2. I was using NT
    on a Panasonic.
    Original Message
    From: "William Cox" <william@c...>
    To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
    Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:14 PM
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] USB - Serial reliability


    > Has anyone had any trouble doing USB to serial on laptops? I'm going to
    get
    > a laptop, but I can't find many that have serial.
    > -William
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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-04-10 03:04
    You can get a USB to serial dongle from a variety of vendors. I've used a
    few and have had no problems.

    Marc Reinig
    System Solutions

    Original Message
    From: William Cox [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=JvTwi1ZQ8j-uxZJqq2vMwhW7W0fn9vvFFK6Z0I4hxzY8hfbTLZQctmaxPeZf2qhXX7SSKEbEez-TKILkVgPfZM48hg]william@c...[/url
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] USB - Serial reliability


    Has anyone had any trouble doing USB to serial on laptops? I'm going to get
    a laptop, but I can't find many that have serial.
    -William
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-04-10 22:26
    William,

    I use a PCMCIA card from Quatech (www.quatech.com), you can choose it with
    one or two ports, and it's very reliable - works with every program I use.
    I have found USB to serial adaptors flaky, as some software doesn't
    open/configure the port correctly. An example of this is the MSCOMM32
    control from MicroSoft, which refuses to receive any data (TX is OK) via a
    USB-Serial port.

    All the best,

    Mike

    >
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    > De: William Cox [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=sQEWs4YYUA0UNECAEFvmlUW6ithSmyprdxWGGeIcyoWzIB3bmttrLtvDtWdUXIdNcj4J0_jonEbqr-xb22UeZG-z]william@c...[/url
    > Enviado el: 9 de abril de 2001 20:15
    > Para: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
    > Asunto: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] USB - Serial reliability
    >
    >
    > Has anyone had any trouble doing USB to serial on laptops? I'm
    > going to get
    > a laptop, but I can't find many that have serial.
    > -William
    >
    >
    > ---==================---
    > http://www.GoRobotics.net
    > Robotics projects, links,
    > resources, news, and more!
    >
    > =================
    > Are you 100% sure ...
    > That if you died tonight,
    > you'd go to heaven?
    > Why have doubts??
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
    >
    >
    >
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-04-12 15:42
    I have used two different converters with no problem. One is a 4 port
    serial converter and the other is a single serial port. I have used them
    both with and without a USB hub.


    At 02:14 PM 4/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
    >Has anyone had any trouble doing USB to serial on laptops? I'm going to get
    >a laptop, but I can't find many that have serial.
    >-William
    >
    >
    >---==================---
    >http://www.GoRobotics.net
    >Robotics projects, links,
    >resources, news, and more!
    >
    >=================
    >Are you 100% sure ...
    >That if you died tonight,
    >you'd go to heaven?
    >Why have doubts??
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
    >
    >
    >
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