i have laptop sony viao and i wonder is there any adaptor for rs232
cable to connect laptop.

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:54:29 -0500, Meat Plow
wrote:

:On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:25:26 -0800, yakupkutlutr Has Frothed:
:
: i have laptop sony viao and i wonder is there any adaptor for rs232
: cable to connect laptop.
:
:USB to RS232? Yes.

I have one currently. I bought a cheap one at a computer show and spent
upwards of 12 hours trying to get it to work. I brought it back to the
vendor at the next computer show and complained that it wasn't working
for me. They said I could exchange it for other equipment, but no
refund. So, I upgraded to another one they sold for a couple of bucks
more. This one worked. I was using it to run an external serial modem on
a PC. At first it worked but I had issues from time to time. Finally, I
couldn't get it to work at all on my Windows 2000 system. Maybe
(probably) I could have resolved the problem somehow but I took the easy
way out and sacrificed one of my PCI slots, removing my firewire card to
my second (seldom used) system, and put my USR hardware PCI modem in my
main box, problem solved.

Point is, those adaptors may or may not work. I've seen many for sale
for all kinds of prices. I think they all come with their own drivers,
or some do at least. I suspect that some work better for some devices
than others and in some systems than others and some OS's than others.

I may soon have a laptop and am hoping I can use a serial device with
the one I have, but am not holding my breath. The laptop I'm
contemplating has no onboard serial capability without buying their
proprietary adapter, but I'm not forking over the $50 or whatever just
to make sure.

I imagine that Sony will sell you an adapter they will stand behind, if
you care to go that way.

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i have laptop sony viao and i wonder is there any adaptor for rs232
cable to connect laptop.

The best possible way to do this, assuming the laptop has no
hardware-based serial port of its own, is to use a PCMCIA/Cardbus serial
card. You can often find such on Ebay. I got a dual-port for about
$35.00 or so.

Happy hunting.


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thank you for replying that. i wonder one more thing. what is the name
of that adaptor. thanks. bye

On Dec 2, 6:47 am, Dan_Musicant wrote:
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:54:29 -0500, Meat Plow
wrote:

:On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:25:26 -0800, yakupkutlutr Has Frothed:
:
: i have laptop sony viao and i wonder is there any adaptor for rs232
: cable to connect laptop.
:
:USB to RS232? Yes.

I have one currently. I bought a cheap one at a computer show and spent
upwards of 12 hours trying to get it to work. I brought it back to the
vendor at the next computer show and complained that it wasn't working
for me. They said I could exchange it for other equipment, but no
refund. So, I upgraded to another one they sold for a couple of bucks
more. This one worked. I was using it to run an external serial modem on
a PC. At first it worked but I had issues from time to time. Finally, I
couldn't get it to work at all on my Windows 2000 system. Maybe
(probably) I could have resolved the problem somehow but I took the easy
way out and sacrificed one of my PCI slots, removing my firewire card to
my second (seldom used) system, and put my USR hardware PCI modem in my
main box, problem solved.

Point is, those adaptors may or may not work. I've seen many for sale
for all kinds of prices. I think they all come with their own drivers,
or some do at least. I suspect that some work better for some devices
than others and in some systems than others and some OS's than others.

I may soon have a laptop and am hoping I can use a serial device with
the one I have, but am not holding my breath. The laptop I'm
contemplating has no onboard serial capability without buying their
proprietary adapter, but I'm not forking over the $50 or whatever just
to make sure.

I imagine that Sony will sell you an adapter they will stand behind, if
you care to go that way.