Serial to USB Converter?

I'm assisting a friend in switching his current (very old PC) network to an wireless network.
As well as very compatible USB laser printer, he also has a serial-cabled dot matrix printer which he would rather not lose.
If I were to hook this up to an Airport Express via a USB/Serial converter, would this work out okay, or does the Airport demand USB-native devices?

the airport express usb port will only support printers. i have a printer / scanner / fax / copier combo device thing and it will only let me use the print wirelessly.
using a converter will mean you plug the converter into the airport express which is not supported.
im afraid this ones not gonna be ewasy for you

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MAX can't find serial to USB converter COM3

Hello friends,
I am using serial to USB converter for communicating the instruments.
I install drivers successfully and device manager shows COM3.
But when I go MAX 5.5 , I cannot see the COM3 port in device and interface.
Please tell me solution of this.

Dennis,
You are totally right, it was a mistake from me. We do not see com connections under data acquisition devices.
Haris115, can you tell which drivers and which versions did you install? You can see it on MAX. And which OS are you using?
I just want to be sure there is the correct compatibility.
Thank you

Serial to USB converter with GPS error

I recently created a program to log GPS information from a Garmin GPS18 antenna. The GPS uses a serial port on the docking station of my laptop for communication and USB for power. In order to deploy this application to a field location, I need to use a USB to Serial converter since the laptop itself does not have a serial port. The program runs fine using the dockingstation and it's serial port, however, when trying to use the USB to Serial converter it routinely errors out. The typical error is -1073807523, "VISA Read in GPS18_read.vi". I have also seen an error that read something like "Property node (argument 8) in VISA configure Serial Port (Instr).via - > GPS18_read.vi".
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Maybe a power issue? How are you connecting the two USB devices to the laptop? A USB device can be high power or low power. If you connect a passive style 'slim' laptop USB hub and connect the two devices to that, you may be power limited on the port.
Also, is the laptop running on battery? Power conservation modes may be trying to shut down your USB port...
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Read from serial-usb converter?

I have an oxygen detector with serial out
link to the owners manual with serial info
http://www.yokogawa.com/an/download/manual/IM11M10B01-01E.pdf
and I want to hook it up to my laptop to record the data but i am having trouble as my laptop has no serial port. so i bought this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812120901&nm_mc=OTC-Channel&cm_mmc=OTC-channel...
How do i read from the usb converter? I can program serial in with the visa on an old pc no problem, but this is giving me some trouble. Any advice would be appreciated thankyou.

superomario wrote:
I just ran the driver setup wizard in visa and got this error for the keyspan dongle.
That might be bad news. My company actually assigned an engineer to buy every USB to COM converter he could find and test them all with as many apps as possible. There were many models that were problematic. You might need to just try another brand (or two (dozen!)).
Still, check the Device Manger or MAX just in case you get lucky...
Using LabVIEW: 7.1.1, 8.5.1 & 2013

How to install and use the CP2102 USART to USB Converter?

First off, I did a quick search and found that some people had had success in that the cp210x driver was already installed on their machines. I did a modprobe and it returned nothing (not an error).
I searched around on the net a bit and found a very useful USART to USB converter bridge (http://www.nexuscyber.com/cp2102-usb-to … Mgod5UQAdQ). The CP2102 is a programmable device with many settings insofar as the data framing is concerned. As such, a driver for the device must be used to interface and modify these parameters.
On the Silabs website I found this driver (http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/page … ivers.aspx) for linux (kernel > 3.x.x). The problem is that this driver is just a single C program with zero documentation. An include make file is about as useful considering it has a single line in it that fails (for me) at run-time.
obj-m = cp210x.o
KVERSION = $(shell uname -r)
all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build M=$(PWD) clean
The driver source can be found here (http://pastie.org/private/kulx2zqdyvkafoxekwjq)
Where my make error is
make -C /lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build M= modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build'
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2537:0:
scripts/kconfig/menu.c: In function 'get_symbol_str':
scripts/kconfig/menu.c:587:18: warning: 'jump' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
jump->offset = strlen(r->s);
^
scripts/kconfig/menu.c:548:19: note: 'jump' was declared here
struct jump_key *jump;
^
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
scripts/Makefile.build:44: /usr/lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build/arch/x86/syscalls/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build/arch/x86/syscalls/Makefile'. Stop.
/usr/lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build/arch/x86/Makefile:185: recipe for target 'archheaders' failed
make[1]: *** [archheaders] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build'
Makefile:4: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
If I do not sudo make I just get this:
.probe = usb_serial_probe,
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:165:16: error: 'usb_serial_disconnect' undeclared here (not in a function)
.disconnect = usb_serial_disconnect,
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_get_config':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:321:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'dbg' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
dbg("%s - Unable to send config request, "
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_open':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:430:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_close':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:451:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_get_termios':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:534:17: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'struct ktermios')
&tty->termios->c_cflag, &baud);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_get_termios_port':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:556:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_change_speed':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:706:21: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'struct ktermios')
baud = tty->termios->c_ospeed;
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_set_termios':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:735:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:740:22: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'struct ktermios')
cflag = tty->termios->c_cflag;
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_tiocmset_port':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:871:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_tiocmget':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:910:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_break_ctl':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:932:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_init':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:989:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_serial_register' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
retval = usb_serial_register(&cp210x_device);
^
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:996:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_serial_deregister' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
usb_serial_deregister(&cp210x_device);
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:314: recipe for target '/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.o] Error 1
Makefile:1274: recipe for target '_module_/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.4-1-ARCH/build'
Makefile:4: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
There is no documentation aside from:
make ( your cp210x driver )
cp cp210x.ko to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/usb/serial
insmod /lib/modules/<kernel-version/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko
insmod cp210x.ko
Can anyone provide some guidance on the steps to install this driver (or at least where to look) and why there is such a lack of documentation? Are there assumptions here that I am not aware of? How is anyone suppose to use this? If you look in the source there are structures being used as arguments to functions that are never defined as far as I can tell. Perhaps they are part of the header files included at the top, but I could not find some of those on my machine either.
Has anyone had success using this device?

ewaller wrote:<hopeful>Do you have an oscilloscope? </hopeful>
First, I think you have a mismatched Baud. Check your settings in GtkTerm. It could also be the uController. I know you said you have it set for 9600 Baud, but are you sure? The divisor settings are dependent on your clock frequency. Are you sure you are using the correct divisors for the frequency of your crystal? And are you using a crystal, ceramic oscillator, or external oscillator for your time base?
I did not think the internal RC oscillators were that bad off, so I was using the internal 8MHz (DIV8 = 0 fuse bit). Taking your advice I just refused the AVR and set it to use a 20MHz clock (external crystal oscillator) to no avail. The setting in GTKterm is certainly 9600 baud.Referencing the datasheet for the Atmega328P we have:
Which gives a a UBRR register value of 129 corresponding to normal speed (U2Xn = 0). This is all computed for me at compile-time via this formula:
20,000,000/(16*9600) - 1 = 129.2 ~ 129 truncated.
That the two devices can communicate tells me they both might be using the same wrong Baud.
I was also suspicious of this .. I do not have a trivial way to test this though. Perhaps some workaround using timers is about the best I can do; no oscilloscope here. Doing a quick high-level test I did find something rather interesting though. Both devices are set to run at 9600 baud. One device is operating at 8MHz (internal oscillator) and the other is using an external 20MHz crystal. I am getting UART communication between the devices, but certainly not the characters I'm sending..
The other problem is that I think you have "Local Echo" turned on in GtkTerm. This places the system in "Half Duplex" mode in which data are not expected to be echoed from the Atmel. That you are getting two characters when the pins are shorted tells me you get the local echo and the loopback. Then the loopback is missing, you still get the local echo. Also, make sure you have parity turned off.
GTKterm does not actually show you what you are typing into the terminal. That is, when you type a character then nothing is displayed to the screen. Presumably this character is sent out as you type it. I was under the impression that local echo would just echo what I type to the screen as well as send it out. Thank you for the clarification.
Last edited by sherrellbc (2014-05-28 03:16:48)

WIth LabVIEW how do I control an instrument with a RS232 output, using a RS232 to USB converter cable.

WIth LabVIEW how do I control an instrument with a RS232 output, using a RS232 to USB converter cable since I dont have rs232 ports. I have two instruments that I want to control in this manner. One is an Imada ZPS force gage with RS232 output. The other is a Panasonic HL-G103-S-J laser micrometer sensor which is RS422. I've done considerable LabVIEW programming using GPIB but I have no experience with devices like these. Any tutorial or examples would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I understand that you want to control a device which having RS 232 port as output. If so, you can use an USB-RS232 cable from PC to device and you can control or monitor the device.
See this link http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/2669
Also, first check the device in hyperterminal and then continue to program in labVIEW. You can find the serial VI's in Instrument I/O.

RS232-to-USB converter

I have an electronic which is connected to either RS-232 serial or USB. Since the electronic cable has a RS-232 adapter, I have to use RS232-to-USB converter to make it compatible with USB port. My LabView application runs well with RS-232 port but doesn't work with USB port. The problem is that, if I use my own laptop which has LabView 7.1 installed, the problem disappears. The electronic works well with both rs-232 and USB. However, the problem appears again in other computers regardless of its version (I tried XP and 2000). I installed NI-VISA and NI-Serial. I surely checked serial port & I/O support when making an installation file. None of the methods has solved my problem yet. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hello,
I have a few questions, the answers to which may help you and clarify the problem:
1. Can you connect directly to your computer via rs-232... do you need to use the USB port?
2. When you say, "My LabView application runs well with RS-232 port but doesn't work with USB port." what specifically do you mean? Do you get an error? If so, what error? Can you attach a screenshot of the behavior?
3. When you plug the USB-RS-232 converter into your PC, do you have access to the RS-232 resource at all? For example, if you select, Start -> Programs -> National Instruments -> VISA -> VISA Interactive Control do you see the RS-232 resource there? Can you perform a loopback test (to do this wire pins 2 and 3, and simply write and read to that serial port)?
4. Do you have any NI Serial HW products? You won't need NI-Serial installed simply to communicate with built in serial ports (or in your case a USB-RS-232 device, which should show up as an RS-232 serial port); NI-VISA will be sufficient.
Thanks and I look forward to your repost!
Best Regards,
JLS
Best,
JLS
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HP Laserjet 6MP fails to print with parallel-to-USB converter cable

I have a LaserJet 6 MP parallel printer which I was using in 10.3.9 with a parallel-to-USB converter cable. The Printer Utility saw it natively as a USB device and it printed just fine most of the time, although it would occasionally fail to print, so I installed a different driver called usbtb 1.0.15, and after that it printed very reliably.
Now I've upgraded to 10.4.9, and the Printer Utility still detects the HP printer natively as a USB device, and I also installed the formerly-reliable usbtb driver again, but the printer now fails to print with either driver. It acts like it's going to, but then it quits.
When I choose Print, all the features of the printer are shown, and I can select which tray to take paper from etc., and the printer dialogue box says "Printing," the activity light on the printer flashes just as it always does when printing is in progress, but then, instead of printing, the activity light stops flashing and the print job disappears from the dialogue box.
Can anyone tell my why this printer is failing to print now, and how I might be able to get it working again?
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Wait a minute! It's only certain Indesign documents that won't print.
All TextEdit docs will print.
I created a few scribbles in Photoshop and they print.
But with InDesign, there is no predicting which documents will print or will not print. On some that will not print, if I remove all but one text box, then they will print. On other documents that do print, if I copy some text off of one that won't print and paste it in, then that one stops printing too.
On some that won't print, if I erase everything on the page and create a new text box and type a few words into it, the page will print. If I revert to the previously saved version, once again the page won't print.
What kind of craziness is this, anyway? It seems random. I can't figure it out.
Even on the documents that won't print, when I try to print them the printer's activity light blinks as though it is just about to print, but then the light goes out without printing.
Anybody got any ideas what this problem is and how to fix it?
All I know is that EVERYTHING printed before I upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.9.
Tom

I have a digital voice recorder with a 3.5mm mic and headphone jack and want to transfer some recorded lecture to my mac book pro. The mac book does not have 3.5mm jacks. Does anyone know if a jack to USB converter would work?

I have a digital voice recorder with a 3.5mm microphone and headphone jack and want to transfer some recorded lectures to my mac book pro. The mac book does not have 3.5mm jacks. Does anyone know if a jack to USB converter would work?

Is there a pattern to the time of day or other detail that may be
traced back to a OS X system cause of this odd phenomenon?
Are there any copies of system files on any of the attached USB
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Once the drives are indexed by Spotlight, are their permissions
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wake or sleep cycle; especially if they're ignored by the OS X.
Could there be a bad cable or other component? If so that would
be a difficult process of elimination to detect it. Usually replacing
most suspect components in the USB stream (external to Macs)
is a rote way to mechanically test that idea; & not 100% sure.
Does the equipment all have a good ground to the utility or house
electrical field? An intermittent ground may affect more than sleep.
Hard to say at this point. Maybe a late-night talk radio guru on
remote viewing could peer into your situation and sleuth it out?
Sorry to have run out of ideas, but the process must be electrical
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Do you have any phone-home spyware items inside, just jumping
at the chance to spill your information? Little Snitch may help.
PS: Perhaps the computer needs to go into Apple & have a genius
or product specialist at AASP test the unit thoroughly... BlueTooth?
see:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Wake+reason:+XHC1
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Premiere Pro CS3 Capture Question (Firewire to USB Converter)

Does Premiere Pro CS3 support capture through a Firewire to USB Converter? More specifically, we have one particular PC laptop that does not have a firewire port, only USB 2.0. So we were thinking of getting a firewire to USB converter. Will that work for capturing footage from our Mini DV camera?
Camera is Canon XH-A1S HD and a firewire cable will be running from this camera to the firewire to USB converter, then a USB cable will be running out of the converter into the dual core laptop with Windows 7, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 460M video card.
Thank you!

Might work then again it might not. Have not heared of any positive results. In other words imo its a waste of money.
You need a real firewire connection.

Can I use an apple ethernet to usb converter to connect my usb modem to my airport express?

Can I use an Apple ethernet to USB converter to connect my USB modem to my Airport Express?

fotosonix wrote:
That's what I thought too, then I bought this USB Ethernet adapter and on the package it says :
"Compatible only with MacBook Air Computers"... so I am not sure if I should open it.
When it was originally released it only worked with the MacBook Air which came with a special version of OS X that supported this adapter. Apple seem to have since built this support in to versions of OS X 10.6 and later for all Macs.
If you have an older version of OS X e.g. 10.3 to 10.5 then an unofficially driver is available here http://www.sustworks.com/sb_site/downloads.html
There are also third-party USB to Ethernet adapters with their own drivers like this one http://www.kanexlive.com/usb3lan

Need a midi-to-usb converter

So...I'm trying to figure out which midi-to-usb converter would work best to connect my Suzuki KM-88 keyboard to my MacBook so I can record with GarageBand. Any ideas on what would work the best? I would appreciate it!
Thanks,
N

Hi there!
Thanks so much for the link! Are these the best adaptors that I can get? Or should I look for some higher quality ones? I'll be using it a lot, so, just wondering.
N

Usb converter cable help needed

I am trying to use an external microphone for iMovies. It apears I can use a USB microphone I have, after talking to someone at Apple.
However, I need a cable which will connect the non-rectangular end of a usb cable to a 30 pin connector. Or the newer connector if that's going to be easier.
Apple sells usb converter cables which have the "rectangular" end of a usb cable which leads to the 30 pin (obviously becuase it's the connector with the power brick). But I need one with the different end -- the end that generally sticks into the printer or other device -- which will then connect with a 30 pin connector. it's not a trapezoid, but more of that than a square.
Does anyone know where I can find this? Do I need to worry where it's made? I ask becuase I've used some Belkin cables in the past with iPods and had some issues with them connecting cleanly. I've looked on the Apple site and seen ones that say they're for cameras, so I feared they were for the mini-usb connectors, or wouldn't work for some othere reason.
Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

It sounds like your mic has USB B, while the standard is USB A.
THe camera connection kit comes with a USB to 30 pin, but it's regular USB, which is A, not USB B. So maybe a USB B female to USB A male converter? Plug your mic into the converter then the converter into the apple connector.
But unless your mic is powered, I'm not sure if the iPad will power the mic through a converter, so whatever you play with you may want to make sure they have a good return policy.
If you try to use the lightning connection, which is the newer one, may be even more problimatic simply because iOS 7.0.4 activated software that looks for signed chips in plugins and those signed chips are only authorized to companies that have gotten apple's permission to make the connector.....which adds another element of 'might not work' to the whole thing.

Mountain Lion compatible Serial-to-USB adaptor recommendation

Can someone recommend a Serial-to-USB adaptor that is compatible with OS X Mountain Lion.
Thank you in advance,
DKG

VikingOSX wrote:
Here is a link to a USB to DB9 solution.
I have used that one and it works.
Here is a similar model that I still use and it works as well:
http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=782&txtModelID=3915
That one has two RS-422 ports.
Their drivers for Mountain Lion work perfectly, as do the earlier ones for PPC Macs. I have used it with every OS X version since Jaguar.
It does install a kernel extension but as far as I have been able to tell, it is well-behaved and I have experienced no conflicts. The .kext is not active unless the adapter is actually connected.
Follow the driver installation instructions carefully - the adapter must be disconnected while installing the driver or the installer package will crash. The package installer dialog tells you this.
Here is a summary from my notes:
Disconnect the Keyspan adapter from your Mac. If you do not disconnect the adapter, the installer package will crash.
Open the downloaded zipfile to expand the keyspanUSAdrvr installer package.
Read the "Important Information", authenticate when necessary, and complete the installation. The Keyspan driver is a kernel extension necessary for the Keyspan adapter to work.
Connect the Keyspan adapter after the installer completes.
An alert may appear indicating that "new network interfaces were detected" and need to be configured. You may ignore this alert, and you may delete the three Keyspan network interfaces that will now appear in System Preferences > Network. OS X seems to think these are dialup modem drivers. They are not used for printing. The alert will not reappear.
A logout / login or reboot should be optional to ensure the driver is loaded. If in doubt, reboot.
With the adapter connected and its driver correctly installed, the kernel extension will now appear in System Information as KeyspanUSAdriver.
In Applications, locate and open Keyspan Serial Assistant. When the adapter has been connected its serial port names will appear in this window. Clicking the reveal triangle will show their names.
KeySerial1 is an alias to the first port on the first Keyspan adapter connected to your Mac. The names USA28XxxxxP1.1 and USA28XxxxxP2.2 will change if the adapter is connected to a different USB port. Connect your serial device to Port 1 on the adapter, and use KeySerial1 for the serial port name. Otherwise it will be necessary to change the name of your serial port every time you change which USB port the Keyspan is using.
Leave Keyspan Serial Assistant in your Applications folder since you may need it to refer to these names in the future.
To uninstall the Keyspan driver software, open Keyspan Serial Assistant, select "Uninstall USB Serial Extension" from the Settings menu, and follow the instructions. Administrator authentication is required to uninstall the driver. The extension will then be eradicated from your system. The only remaining files are the Keyspan Serial Assistant application, the installer package, and the downloaded zipfile. To completely delete everything drag all these files to the Trash.
Keyspan had previously labeled their OS X 10.8 driver a "beta" version, which worked fine. They since dropped the "beta" label. Hopefully this indicates they are interested in continued support. In any event I doubt any updates would be required for future OS X versions any time soon, since it is already a 64 bit driver.

Palm V serial to USB

I have a Palm V, XP Pro, Office outlook 2003. I am trying to hook up my old cradle which is a serial port to my new computer which has USB ports. I've read quite a lot of forums regarding this topic however, being technologically inept I'm finding them a little confusing. Can someone help me simplify the process and advise how/what i need to do inorder to get my Palm V working with my laptop (step by step instructions)? I really appreciate your help!
Post relates to: Palm V

First, check your HotSync Manager software to see if it has the "Local USB" setting as an option. If not, download a newer version of Palm Desktop (version 4.1.4E should work) and set it for Local USB.
Second, you will need to purchase a small Serial to USB adapter, or a similar cable from a computer store or online.
If the adapter has a driver disc, be sure to run it prior to connecting your cradle. Plug the cradle into the adapter and then into your Computer.
Perform a Hotsync and it should work.
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