Turbobike

I have an older Laptop, works very well for my needs. I would like to hook the Axim up to it. Only problem is no USB. I know a serial port is much slower than a USB, but I'm willing to suffer. Anybody know of any solutions to hook a USB cable to a Serial port?

commoved

Not right now. Eventually, Dell or somebody else will come out with a serial cable. I suppose you could find some conversion box for IR or USB-to-serial, but really the better thing is to be patient. Given the demand for serial (see some of the other posts), it shouldn't be long.

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TSB8C

An adapter can be purchased at:

http://www.firewiremax.com/db9serusbadc.html

Kinda pricey though - $20

Mike C

I think that's the wrong gender. Add says for attaching serial device. IE, the usb end is male.

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TSB8C

You're right. That one is backwards. It plugs into a USB port on your PC and provides you an RS-232 9-pin port at the other end. Sorry about that.

shaneincottondale

I have customers asking all the time for a USB to serial cable but I have yet to find one manufactured. Serial to USB, no problem....guess it's harder going the other way.



shane

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JakeRich

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Originally posted by shaneincottondale@Jan 12 2003, 12:00 PM I have customers asking all the time for a USB to serial cable but I have yet to find one manufactured. Serial to USB, no problem....guess it's harder going the other way. shane

I think I've figured out why you can't go the other way. RS 232 serial ports don't have any intelligence built in them. USB has significant protocol intelligence built in. The USB to Serial adapters out there basically dumb-down the USB Host port to accept Serial communications, then "smarten" the inbound 232 signals to USB standards to have them look like they are coming from the dumb end of USB, the Device. If all you have is a 232 port, it would take basically another computer to be on the USB side to handle the protocol and pretend to be the USB Host controlling the interface. The cost would be very high. Basically you'd be buying a minimized pc with ports, USB Host logic and communications to act as a bridge. Not likely too many buyers.

JakeRich

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Originally posted by Turbobike@Jan 11 2003, 09:48 AM I have an older Laptop, works very well for my needs. I would like to hook the Axim up to it. Only problem is no USB. I know a serial port is much slower than a USB, but I'm willing to suffer. Anybody know of any solutions to hook a USB cable to a Serial port?

Jeteye. It's a serial IR port. You can then use IR sync. Not swift, but functional.