[time-nuts] How to run Lady Heather under Windows10

Ken Winterling wa2lbi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 13:10:28 EDT 2016


This USB/serial adapter has the FTDI chipset and is $14.99 USD.  It is the
one I am using on my Windows 10 laptop.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DCJRD2Y?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00


Ken
WA2LBI

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:34 PM, David J Taylor <
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
> There are multiple possible issues:
>
> 1) Most (like 99.99%) new laptops do not have a com port, that gets you to
> some sort of external port
> 2) USB is pretty common, but as mentioned in another thread, ethernet and
> bluetooth are also quite possible.
> 3) Since it is an external bus, the connection it’s self may be down (bad
> cable / hub / out of range / turned off …)
> 4) Assuming the connection is there, you now need drivers. They have to
> match both the device and the OS
>
> Yes, this is “fun”. It’s hardly restricted to serial ports or to any one
> OS. My $6 Chinese clone programming adapters
> just stopped working when the FPGA vendor upgraded their software. Oddly
> enough, the vendor’s $300 adapter still
> works fine with the new drivers. Since I didn’t pay $294 for the IP
> protection when I bought my clones … that’s the way
> it works. Hopefully there will be new clones along “real soon now”.
>
> If your (a wild guess) USB serial adapter is not being recognized, I’d
> check the driver status in your OS. Google is
> quite helpful coming up with multiple screen shots of how to get to the
> right screen for just about any OS version on
> the planet. That screen will show you if the driver is installed and what
> com port the driver decided to use. The port number
> is a driver (not os) decision in many cases. It could just as easily be
> Com56 as Com1. The drivers do this so they don’t
> “duplicate” a previous assignment.
>
> Lots of fun…
>
> Bob
> =====================================
>
> Bob,
>
> USB to serial, I can recommend:
>
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004ZMYTYC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
>
> which works well under Windows-10.  It has an FTDI chipset and not a copy.
> Must be about US $20.
>
> Whatever I'm using to talk to my Arduino board also works - ah, that's a
> genuine FTDI chipset as well.  But I do have a PL???? cable which also
> works nicely.
>
> I certainly don't think that needing to upgrade drivers or a single piece
> of hardware is a sufficient reason for someone to swap back to Win-7.
>
> Cheers,
> David
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