Re: Uploading to a Pronto with no Serial port.

[Stuart Booth <lists@xxxxxxx>]

On 29 May 2003 16:09:05 +0100, Stuart Grimshaw
<stuart@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:00, Stuart Booth wrote:
>> >I had the same problem (no legacy support on the laptop) till
I went an=
d
>> >bought a USB to Serial cable, about =C2=A325 IIRC, and its
well worth i=
t for
>> >things like this.
>>=20
>> I have a pair of these which I picked up from eBuyer for about
>> =C2=A312-ish. This was a while ago though.
>
>Yeah, the 6 quid ones from eBuyer have some negative feedback saying
>they don't work as a proper com port. Have you used one to program your
>Pronto?

Not yet. I've only used them to work with a Meteor unit. My Pronto is
upstairs in the office for new batteries and a long overdue
reprogramming, however, so I can certainly try it out.

My experience with these eBuyer ones was that one worked fine on my
Server, and the other wouldn't. This 'dodgy' one worked fine in my
main machine though! Oddly however, when I was fiddling with the
Meteor at the w/e it wasn't working, and I don't yet know why that is
yet.

S
--=20
Stuart Booth
Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK

stuart@xxxxxxx