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RE: USB -> Serial


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: USB -> Serial
  • From: "Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:30:47 +0100
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

> Has anyone used a USB->serial cable to program theirs? I've heard
stories
> that
> some of the cables don't present a proper COM port to the system, so
many
> devices can't actually use them ...?

Yes Stuart I use one all the time but you may not like the answer. ;)

I'm using under Win XP and it didn't register as a proper COM port so,
quick
registry hack and, tada! COM port 1 is now a USB to serial lead.

K.




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