Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread Daryl Tester
On 29/9/23 09:15, Wayne Venables wrote: You absolutely need the www in front or the link won't work. https://www.prolific.com.tw At this moment, neither www.prolific.com.tw or prolific.com.tw return any DNS A records. https://www.prolific.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41 is reachable

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread Wayne Venables
You absolutely need the www in front or the link won't work. https://www.prolific.com.tw I have a prolific based USB to Serial adapter and I don't think I needed to download the driver -- it just installed the driver automatically when I plugged it in.  There are a lot of knock-off cheap proli

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread Peter Vollan
Well, it doesn't work for me. Not from my Dell laptop running Linux nor the Surface Pro Go. "DNS address cannot be found" On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 15:36, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 3:20 PM Peter Vollan wrote: > >> prolific.com.tw? I just get "this site cannot be reac

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 3:20 PM Peter Vollan wrote: > prolific.com.tw? I just get "this site cannot be reached". And no one > else who thinks they have actually do, or just link back to the dead site. > I have other adaptors but they are buried in storage. > https://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowPr

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread Peter Vollan
prolific.com.tw? I just get "this site cannot be reached". And no one else who thinks they have actually do, or just link back to the dead site. I have other adaptors but they are buried in storage. On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 15:04, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Maybe delete the device and re add it i

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Maybe delete the device and re add it in Windows. Prolific site is up. Communication error generally refers to the cable check. So either you dont have full null wiring or you need to loop back dtr/dsr. John On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 2:49 PM Peter Vollan wrote: > I finally found that my Surface P

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread Gregory McGill
in windows you go into device manager and com ports and find the port there, likely the device drive will load from microsoft unless your adapter is bootlegged in linux you either dmesg and find the device it's assigned too when it is connected or ls -la /dev/ttyUSB* and you will see the usb ser

Re: [M100] file transfer

2023-09-28 Thread Peter Vollan
I finally found that my Surface Pro Go is using COM3, but it says "driver error". I am using a prolific pl2303 adaptor. I have not been able to get the driver: Prolific's Taiwanese web site is down, and whenever download a file the driver is not in the zip. Windowsreport.com talks about menu option