10 May
2007
10 May
'07
4:03 p.m.
All,
On 10/05/07, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 10/05/2007 20:21, Al Kossow wrote:
Under Windows XP, "just worked". IIRC for older versions, there's a
driver. Haven't found one that works for Mac OS X yet.
A lot depends on the devices and how the OS handles the drivers. I
have two USB to serial adapters that work perfectly under OpenBSD.
When I initially got them they were not supported by the version I was
running, but a bit of googling showed that support was new and with an
upgrade - they just worked.
They are recognised as;
Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00
One of the things I find frustraiting is the lack of information that
Windows seems to provide about what devices it sees and the logical
arangement of the devices within the computer... However this is
drifting further off topic....
Simon
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"Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to
philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is
the utility of the final product."
Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh
A few
weeks
ago I bought a few USB serial port adapters, and they work fine on a
variety of PCs running various versions of Windows. Not, though, on a
Mac, which doesn't even see them.
Did they 'just work' or was a driver downloaded off the net to make them
work?