I have had success with a USB converter from BAFO.com that I got
a few years ago...until now. When I tried to upgrade to TOS1.1.14,
it required a cygwin update as well. With this in place UISP was
no longer able to open the (converted) serial port at COM3. Mike
Smith at Xbow informed me that I should be using /dev/ttyS2 as
the device name, but this relies on a WindowsTrick(TM) that maps
the ports to a fake /dev directory. Apparently the driver for the
USB converter does not avail itself of this trick. Perhaps the
Belkin driver does...
I guess the only way to know is to get the adapter and try it on
your old system first.
MS
Ian Welch wrote:
I'm looking at purchasing a new computer, the problem is it doesn't have
any Serial ports on it. I read on the TinyOS faq that the Belkin F5U109
and the Targus PA088 USB -> Serial converters work. I did a search in
the Archives and found this
<https://mail.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tinyos-help/2005-February/007944.html>
article that said they got it to work for programming Motes. Has anyone
else had any experience using a USB->Serial converter. I was also
thinking that is a USB->Serial adapter didn't work a PCMCIA card could
be purchased that contained a serial port. I just don't want to buy a
new computer and have it not work.
Thanks,
Ian
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