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vista and usb

ibnewibnew Posts: 1
edited 2007-11-05 04:47 in BASIC Stamp
i resently got "whats a microcontroller?" for radioshack. i got home and dident have time to work on it for a month or two, and today i decided to, only to discover to my dismay that i dont have a serial port on my new laptop. so i jouneyed again to the shack and got a "6-ft USB to Serial Cable" so after a few hours of fiddeling with my computer i got it to say yes in both the ping and the loop coulums. but it cant seem to detect a BASIC Stamp. i tryed turning off the FIFO Buffers as suggested in appendix E. but alas i cant seem to get it to work. i will try it on a different computer tomaro, but i would like to make it work on my laptop, so any help would be amazing.

Thanks,

Mark

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  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2007-11-03 16:43
    Some usb to serial adapters don't bring all the signals out to the serial end and thus do not work with the stamp. The one Parallax sells and the FTDI ones work as well as some others that I don't remember the names but someone will and post them I'm sure.

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  • crgwbrcrgwbr Posts: 614
    edited 2007-11-05 00:30
    I've tried the one from radioshack, it doesn't work with stamps. I think the one from "Cables to Go" works.

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  • J.T.J.T. Posts: 31
    edited 2007-11-05 04:47
    well, I'm a newbie, so I didn't think I'd actually be able to answer any one else's questions, but this one I've been through.

    The radio shaq USB to Serial cable does not·work with Vista, and is expensive.· I went to Fry's electronics and found one from Cables unlimitted that works great for 1/2 the price.· It said it is Vista compatible on the front.

    good luck.
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