help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

Mike Whalen mikew at thecomputervalet.com
Sat Mar 11 15:24:03 CST 2017


If you stare at the Device Manager and pull the USB/Serial adapter do the
"Unknown Device" and "Base System Device" disappear?

Who is the manufacturer of the USB/Serial cable?

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Joe Giliberti via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Greetings!
> I am trying to connect my IIc to my laptop through ADTPro and am
> having trouble getting the FT232R adapter I bought from Retro Floppy.
> The host computer is an HP Elitebook running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
> When I first plugged in the cable, Windows tried and failed to find
> the device drivers. I downloaded the drivers from the manufacturer of
> the chip and and ran it. It told me installation was successful and
> device manager recognized that there was a USB serial port, but
> reported an Unknown Device and a Base System Device that didn't have
> drivers installed. I tried to use ADTPro but it didn't see a serial
> port.
>
> Has anyone run into this issue before?
>
> Thank you in advance!
> Joe Giliberti
>


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