On May 7, 2007, at 7:20 AM, Thom LaCosta wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Brian Lloyd wrote:
But getting back to the question, insofar as the K3 is concerned,
it is doing serial async RS-232. That is pretty generic. Virtually
any one-USB-to-one-serial-port adaptor is going to work with your
computer.
I have been through 3 adpaters here that don't work with my
Dell....I hope the KUSB does.
I suspect you will find that the KUSB won't work either.
I suspect you are running Windows. There you are at the mercy of each
provider of the USB/serial converter to provide you with a driver
that works. But as someone else said, it could be a problem with the
USB port on the computer. Via made a USB 1.0 chip at one point that
ended up in a lot of computers and that just didn't work right.
Getting USB to work properly on those computers is a challenge and
many USB devices just didn't work right as a result.
So, getting USB to work depends on the following:
1. the chip(s) implementing the USB port in your computer;
2. the driver for the chip implementing the USB port in your computer;
3. the chip(s) implementing the serial-to-USB adaptor;
4. the driver provided with the serial-to-USB adaptor.
If you are using a MacOS, Linux, or a flavor of UNIX you will find
that there tend to be only a few generic drivers for this since the
drivers are based on the chip(s) used. Windows requires a vendor-
specific driver for each device. The latter means that even if you
get the same hardware (serial-to-USB converter) from two different
vendors (generic Taiwanese serial-to-USB adaptor), you need two
different drivers for Windows but only one generic driver with MacOS,
Linux, or *NIX.
73 de Brian, WB6RQN
Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com
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