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How to use allocate ports with USB/Serial Adapter?

Feb 10, 2004 7:18PM PST

My computer doesn't have a serial port, to which I wanted to hook up a (serial) Tekram IrMate 210. I got hold of an adapter (Keyspan USA-19QW) but can't get them to play together. When I allocate the ports for the Tekram, should I be setting this to the same port as the Keyspan (so, in theory, it "passes through") or should these be allocated to different ports?

Thanks for any help!

Gus

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Re:How to use allocate ports with USB/Serial Adapter?
Feb 10, 2004 9:03PM PST

I read your post twice and still can't see your issue.

Some havr had problems with the device you noted, but most found it to work after hunting down updated drivers or just replacing it.

1. What's to say the unit works at all?

2. What device are you trying to talk to?

Some don't know to enable IR communications in the Palm units.

Bob

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Re:Re:How to use allocate ports with USB/Serial Adapter?
Feb 14, 2004 3:24AM PST

The device I'm using is a glucometer (Accu-Chek Active) which infrared links to a PC. This uses software which asks you to assign to a port (comms 1-4), but even if I use a USB/Irda adapter I run into a problem, as I can't allocate the USB to a particular port. Also, am using the latest drivers available.

Any ideas on how to make this all work?

Thanks,
Gus

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Re:Re:Re:How to use allocate ports with USB/Serial Adapter?
Feb 15, 2004 7:28AM PST

Usb ports usually work in acending order as well as provide faster data transfer, which the usual addressing of those ports are usb 001, usb 002, depending of course of how many ports you have available or have added. I run 9 usb 2.0 ports, 4 onboard, and 5 via PCI card and have no issues in a multiboot system with 98SE, W2K pro (SP3), and XP Pro (SP1). Crossaddressing with serial and parallel devices take a bit of work to configure.

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Is there a way to set USB/Port manually?
Feb 15, 2004 7:36AM PST

So - is there a way that I can tell the machine to allocate the port to the USB irda adapter manually, so that when I set the software to a given port (which allows allocation to any of ports 1,2,3 or 4) it is set to the same port? Is there a webpage that steps through how to do this? (have tried googling for this, but haven't had any luck).

Thanks,
Gus

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Is there a way to set USB/Port manually?
Feb 15, 2004 3:57PM PST

So - is there a way that I can tell the machine to allocate the port to the USB irda adapter manually, so that when I set the software to a given port (which allows allocation to any of ports 1,2,3 or 4) it is set to the same port? Is there a webpage that steps through how to do this? (have tried googling for this, but haven't had any luck).

Thanks,
Gus