USB to serial adaptor

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

Thanks guys. The one I bought from Fry's didn't work (USB to serial on one side/parallel on the other), I should have put that in the first post.

I'll take a pic of it. Tamago, if you have a spare to try, that would be great.

The key is to look in "device manager" under system, hardware in control panel. Under ports (com and lpt), you should see the device listed with a serial port number (com1, com2, com8, etc.). Sometimes the SW is only setup to address com1-com4 (and the USB ones tend to automatically jump in at com8 or higher).

If that's the issue with the app you're trying to run, you can force the USB one to be a lower com port. Under properties for the device (in device manager), in the port setting tab, click on advanced and then port number, and change it to a lower one.