serial adapter win vista

[ncwarlord]

i have a dynex dx-ubdb9 serial cable to usb adapter that i cant get the driver to work on windows vista i was wondering if there were something i could do to get the driver insatlled?

[NooNoo]

hmmm I already answered this in your other post.... please don't post the same question twice.

[Greybear]

Has anyone gotten this cable to work on VISTA? If so, how.

I would also like to know if there is some way to install this in a compatibility mode for XP or 2000 in VISTA, incase no one has gotten it to work.

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Greybear

the drivers are here but I have not had any feedback as to whether they work in vista or not. The product details are here Perhaps you would be able to post the results? Thanks

[Greybear]

Yep tried those. They failed to work. They installed tho.

It identifies the cable and appears to be working in the device manager, but does not identify the device I connect to it.

Looking at the supported OS, Vista was not one. Looking at the INF's, I was surprised that it even tried to install.

But to be honest, I am 1 step further than VISTA, Win 7 but it takes the same. I will work with it some more this weekend, see if I can find my old joystick and try to install it via the cable.

I even found another thread, it had drivers for this cable, and 2 others, I installed their drivers for Vista without success also.

Ill also double verify its working properly in XP.

[NooNoo]

Win 7 installs xp drivers quite happily... This laptop is running w7 and has 4 devices that don't have support past xp and yet they work.

The big problem with this conversion cables is that they assume a standard wiring and signalling. Usb to parallel cables are another hit and miss problem.

You would be far better off just getting a serial i/o card and fitting it.

[slgrieb]

Generally, serial devices are straightforward to connect by a USB to Serial device. For example, if you were connecting a simple printer like a tag or label printer. Where you run into problems is with more sophisticated devices.

A generic text printer might work fine with your adapter, but a laser printer might have a problem because the driver might not work correctly with the virtual serial port used by the USB to Serial adapter. I expect that's what's happening with your device.

[Greybear]

Yeah pretty much whats happening.....

The device thats connected to it is a Polaroid Camera I had to give up when I went from 98 to XP for lack of drivers....

But with the USB cable, it never acts like anything is connected to it in Win 7.

[slgrieb]

Well, have you checked for updated software for the camera itself? Polaroid's support site is here, but it requires a model number to find information, and I've no idea which camera you have. Yes, that's a hint.