Rs232-->usb??
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While I've not used them personally (my comm port seems to work well), my
boss's machine has no RS-232 ports and he uses a USB <-> Serial converter for
programming Stamps. It works great. I believe it's made by Belden [noparse][[/noparse]sp?] and
costs about $30.
-- Jon Williams
-- Parallax
In a message dated 4/10/02 5:02:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
manwithapipe@y... writes:
> I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> devices?
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boss's machine has no RS-232 ports and he uses a USB <-> Serial converter for
programming Stamps. It works great. I believe it's made by Belden [noparse][[/noparse]sp?] and
costs about $30.
-- Jon Williams
-- Parallax
In a message dated 4/10/02 5:02:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
manwithapipe@y... writes:
> I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> devices?
[noparse][[/noparse]Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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>I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
>curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
>cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
>devices? Thanks...
Some work and some don't. The adapters made by Belkin work. Cost $25 -
$35, and usually available at your local Staples or other large business
supply store.
I have had good luck with the belkin mod#f5u109
it is a pda adapter but it works.
regards
victor
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From: "manwithapipe" <manwithapipe@y...>
To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
> I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> devices? Thanks...
>
> Andrew
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At 06:20 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At 17:58 04/10/02, manwithapipe wrote:
>
> >I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> >curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> >cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> >devices? Thanks...
>
>Some work and some don't. The adapters made by Belkin work. Cost $25 -
>$35, and usually available at your local Staples or other large business
>supply store.
>
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victor Faria
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From: <sargent@s...>
To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
> I've had zero trouble with a Keyspan USB > RS232 converter
>
>
>
>
> At 06:20 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >At 17:58 04/10/02, manwithapipe wrote:
> >
> > >I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> > >curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> > >cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> > >devices? Thanks...
> >
> >Some work and some don't. The adapters made by Belkin work. Cost $25 -
> >$35, and usually available at your local Staples or other large business
> >supply store.
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I've been using it on a Pentium II machine running Windows 98. The Keyspan
driver installation went very smooth. I've programmed my BSII hundreds of
times, and have also used the converter with my camera and other RS232
devices without a single problem.
What type of PC and operating system are you trying to us it with?
Steve
At 07:15 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>strange I had one that I couldn't get to work!Hmmmmmm
>victor Faria
>
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>To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
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> > I've had zero trouble with a Keyspan USB > RS232 converter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06:20 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > >At 17:58 04/10/02, manwithapipe wrote:
> > >
> > > >I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> > > >curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> > > >cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> > > >devices? Thanks...
> > >
> > >Some work and some don't. The adapters made by Belkin work. Cost $25 -
> > >$35, and usually available at your local Staples or other large business
> > >supply store.
> > >
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I'm using a Compaq notebook.
Win me 1ghz
I tried a regular belkin I don't remember the model #
it was about $80.00 but it didn't work then I tried the keyspan and that
didn't work finally someone mentioned this belkin pda adapter and it has
been working.
one thing I must mention I have also been doing some things with pic's and
bootloaders and it has also been working with it.
regards
victor
Original Message
From: <sargent@s...>
To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
> Hi Victor,
>
> I've been using it on a Pentium II machine running Windows 98. The Keyspan
> driver installation went very smooth. I've programmed my BSII hundreds of
> times, and have also used the converter with my camera and other RS232
> devices without a single problem.
>
> What type of PC and operating system are you trying to us it with?
>
> Steve
>
>
> At 07:15 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >strange I had one that I couldn't get to work!Hmmmmmm
> >victor Faria
> >
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> >From: <sargent@s...>
> >To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:49 PM
> >Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
> >
> >
> > > I've had zero trouble with a Keyspan USB > RS232 converter
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 06:20 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >At 17:58 04/10/02, manwithapipe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system
and
> > > > >curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB
adapter
> > > > >cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> > > > >devices? Thanks...
> > > >
> > > >Some work and some don't. The adapters made by Belkin work. Cost
$25 -
> > > >$35, and usually available at your local Staples or other large
business
> > > >supply store.
> > > >
> > > >
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and Keyspan makes USB to RS232 and USB to RS422 (PC or Mac) adapters.
I haven't had any trouble at all with the Keyspan's. Looking forward also
to making a Stamp based USB gadget.
http://www.beyondlogic.org/usb/ftdi.htm
http://www.ftdichip.com/
http://www.keyspan.com/
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>From: "manwithapipe" <manwithapipe@y...>
>To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
>Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 9:58 AM
>
> I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
> curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
> cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
> devices? Thanks...
>
> Andrew
>
>
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purchased to work, and IOGear is far from helpful. They claim the
drivers for win2000 should work, but they don't. There is problem on
laptops without any native serial ports. the OS doesn't load
the .dll files or something, and this makes it impossible for the
adapter to work properly. The only way to do it is to add
a "virtual" serial port, which I can't figure out how to do in XP.
Just FYI.
Later
Jody
--- In basicstamps@y..., "manwithapipe" <manwithapipe@y...> wrote:
> Wow, big response...I appreciate the discussion and I'm sure many
> others will find it useful in the future. Anyone have any
experience
> with an adapter on a Win 2kPro machine?
> cheers
> andrew
>
>
Edgeports from Inside Out Networks. These are mostly sold for use in POS
applications and other commercial venues so they are not cheap. On this
PC I have 10 serial ports, 6 on two edgeports and 4 in the box. They all
work great. And yes, 8 of them are constantly connected to something.
Al Williams
AWC
* Easy RS-232 Prototyping
http://www.al-williams.com/awce/rs1.htm
>
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> From: moparjody [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=E__bHrJIvIwm7w0yToQ_wZV8QOIG5IPilz4r6R7i0Ay-SrfLSXsFlMHbjUHuG0zLF0If3OnWfVQi1hM7AUsB6tMUYqY]jody.gallant@s...[/url
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:34 AM
> To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Re: RS232-->USB??
>
>
> Not with 2Kpro, but with XPPro. I cannot get the IOGear unit we
> purchased to work, and IOGear is far from helpful. They claim the
> drivers for win2000 should work, but they don't. There is problem on
> laptops without any native serial ports. the OS doesn't load
> the .dll files or something, and this makes it impossible for the
> adapter to work properly. The only way to do it is to add
> a "virtual" serial port, which I can't figure out how to do in XP.
>
> Just FYI.
>
> Later
> Jody
>
> --- In basicstamps@y..., "manwithapipe" <manwithapipe@y...> wrote:
> > Wow, big response...I appreciate the discussion and I'm sure many
> > others will find it useful in the future. Anyone have any
> experience
> > with an adapter on a Win 2kPro machine?
> > cheers
> > andrew
> >
> >
>
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cost in quantity for OEM use.
Dennis
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From: manwithapipe [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=Z5HSPiZcCN-UDabesbkfBbG5bYsl0gK6vMT9rCDVg8Mo5d9aN-ME5TwwKDYcLwh1A4_Me6HclT81AiY3ri3PVw]manwithapipe@y...[/url
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:58 PM
To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RS232-->USB??
I'm getting sick of dealing with the strange com port on my system and
curious if anyone has any experience working with RS232-->USB adapter
cables? Do they work properly with the stamp & other straight-thru
devices? Thanks...
Andrew