Re: Windows Driver for USB to RS232?

On Jun 12, 3:36 pm, cs_post...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Link?

VID?  PID?


OK here's the latest.

I finally got the driver working. There wasn't an error in the driver
itself, but rather in its intructions.

When you first plug the device in, Windows uses one of its built-in
drivers for it, and that doesn't work. The driver intructions actually
acknowledge that Windows will use the wrong driver, so it (tries to)
show you how to manually set the correct driver, but there's an error
in the instructions that leads you to doing the manual installation
wrongly.

Anywaaaaaaaaaaaay, I got the driver working properly. Next I opened my
program that actually interfaces with a serial port, but it wouldn't
work. I also tried it on a desktop computer that has two other built-
in serial ports, but it still didn't work.

I might try using the device with HyperTerminal to see if I can even
do simple communication between two PC's. If that doesn't even work, I
won't stop til I get a full refund.

VID = 0x04b4
PID = 0x5500

I've tried looking up this VID and PID combo but it seems that it's
registered to the microcontroller inside than device rather than to
the device itself.

Has anyone here got any experience with a cheap USB to RS232 adapter
that works perfectly as if it were an in-built serial port? If so, I'd
appreciate if you could send me a link for it.

Would anyone here on this group be interested in keeping a list of
"Recommended cheap electronics"? I myself could definitely add a few
products to it that are extremely cheap but work perfectly.
.

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