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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: USB to serial db9 cable

2010-02-24 by Zack Widup

I have several pieces of ham radio equipment that use RS232
connections. These pieces of equipment that are commercially made were
either made by companies that are no longer around or are not being
produced with USB upgrades yet. And then there's some things I built
myself!

Zack


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be interested in a solution to this as well. I have several
> pieces of an Arduino board that have USB and no tru serial port. Even
> when they are individually attached to the same USB port they do not
> attach to the same virtual COM port. You can go into Windows and
> change the port but that would be a pain in a lot of applications. It
> would be nice if you could tell the driver to "always use COM5" or
> whatever.
>
> Tim
>
> On Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:48 AM [GMT+1=CET],
> Zack Widup wrote:
>
>> Is this a commercially available device? Or one you built
>> yourself? Either way, can you supply info on it?
>> Zack
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:35 AM, <enkitec@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24-Feb-10 02:06, Donald H wrote:
>>>> I have not found any USB-2-serial dongle that will keep the
>>>> COMx number the same across USB ports.
>>>>
>>>> don
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to introduce my FTDI USB-2-serial dongle that
>>> doesn't change the COMx number when connected on different
>>> USB port.
>>>
>>> Don't ask me why, I don't know.
>>>
>>> Mark Jordan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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