Okay, it's working the ugreen one. I did a stupid and dropped the RXTXComm file in the wrong place. Well, since all sales are final at Radioshack these days, I've got an extra cable...
Thanks again. If I didn't look into the things suggested, I probably wouldn't have found my screw-up! Joe Giliberti On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Adrian Graham <wit...@binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/03/2017 21:52, "Joe Giliberti via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> The cable is branded "Ugreen." I've had difficulties with USB to RS232 >> adapters in the past, which is why I bought it from the ADTPro >> website. I figured that it would be more likely to work straight away. > > I've had difficulties with everything I've used from ugreen, the latest > being an HDMI-DVA adapter which just didn't work 100%. Trouble is with some > of these ebay buys you don't know who made it until it lands on your mat. > >> On a venture to the grocery store today, I stopped in at a Radioshack >> which was having a liquidation sale. I bought their "Gigaware" USB to >> serial cable for a decent discount at $20. As I understand it, this >> one uses a Prolific chipset which can occasionally be troublesome.. >> Thankfully, there appear to be drivers for it specifically for Windows >> 7. > > Prolific! That's the chipset name I was trying to remember earlier. Seems > that most ADTPro folks have more success with that one than the others. > > -- > Adrian/Witchy > Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator > Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer > collection? > >
