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Serial Adaptor HELP PLease

Peter RandPeter Rand Posts: 20
edited 2007-12-06 22:06 in BASIC Stamp
I'm using your Basic Stamp Carrier board (product id 27120) with BS2e and using your USB to 232 serial adaptor. When connected to my computer USB the serial adaptor pilot light is lighting up but the MACBS2 program is not detecting a serial connection and is not giving me a choice of serial port (none are highlighted). (Power to the Stamp gives a warm chip). This same computer USB port is working fine on my Board of education USB port. Why is the USB to 232 serial adaptor not working on the Carrier Board?

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  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2007-12-06 03:21
    What drivers are you using? Which adapter? You say it is not decting the adapter (no com ports) so I would go there first. Don't worry about the stamp until you get the adapter working.

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  • allanlane5allanlane5 Posts: 3,815
    edited 2007-12-06 21:53
    This usually happens when the USB to RS232 adapter hardware needs a DIFFERENT driver than the USB hardware on the BOE. If you didn't specifically load a driver for your USB to Serial adapter, this is probably the problem.
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2007-12-06 22:06
    For Mac you will need to get the Mac drivers from the FTDI website and install them. Unfortunately since we do not have Macs in house, we cannot troubleshoot the connection issues.

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