usb to serial com port

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roberttran

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Hi,

I have a USB to serial adapter that I want to use. When I plug it into my laptop running windows xp, it is reconized, but is seen as a human interface device under device manager. I want it to show up as com2 or com4 so the application I'm using can see it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Robert
 
Have you made sure that there is nothing else taking up com2 or 4?
 
Orr said:
Have you made sure that there is nothing else taking up com2 or 4?
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I checked and Com2 is used. But basically, I just need to assign it any com port (1, 3 or 4) since the application only has options for 1 thru 4.
 
Some of those cables come with software that you use to map the USB port to a selected serial port. Did you buy it brand new? Did it come with a disk? Who is the manufacturer of the adapter?
 
Phandalyon said:
Some of those cables come with software that you use to map the USB port to a selected serial port. Did you buy it brand new? Did it come with a disk? Who is the manufacturer of the adapter?
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It was some cheapo adapter I bought a while ago. It didn't come with a CD :(
 
roberttran said:
It was some cheapo adapter I bought a while ago. It didn't come with a CD :(
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Some of the cheapo ones are absolute crap and never work right anyway...

Hope the software gets your working.

MD
 
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