On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 07:03:40PM +0100, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: > A medicine ECG Win-software is connected to a IBM 50e laptop by vmware/WinXP > with a prolific USB->serial adapter. The data stream is corrupted about > every 5 seconds. The same laptop booted with WinXP and all works well.
Are you saying that Linux was the host OS for the vmware/WinXP session? Or the guest os? Which OS had the driver that was controlling the device in it? > We tried the same WinXP/vmware constellation on a desktop PC > Barton 3000 / 1GB RAM machine and it didn't work either. > Also it's not a problem of processor power/ RAM! > > The ECG connected to the serial device ttyS0 on the desktop PC works fine > with vmware/WinXP. Also it's not a problem of vmware. How do you know for sure? USB is vastly different from a plain serial line for vmware to handle. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
