[Coco] DW4/Prolific USB/Xubuntu 13.10 Fail [Solved]

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

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On 2014-01-08 6:24 PM, "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> Well, I ordered a couple of the super cheap USB/Serial adapters that Aaron
> says work for him, and got good results with DW4.  If the problem with the
> Prolific chip is a proliferation of bad clones, then perhaps Aaron's source
> has gotten ahold of the real deal.  I couldn't find where Aaron posted the
> link when I looked for it just now, so I'll re-post for any who want to try
> these out: http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-to-RS232-serial-DB9-Adapter-4-
> XP-Vista-Win7-Female-Screw-FastShipping-USA-/230911838342?pt=US_Parallel_
> Serial_PS_2_Cables_Adapters&hash=item35c36b0886
>
> I haven't tested them thoroughly yet, or really checked out the
> performance, but the one I opened does seem to work, which is a lot more
> than I can say for the one I had lying around before.
>
> One little hitch I ran into was that when I tried running the
> configuration wizard it wouldn't detect the serial port, and it wouldn't
> accept the /dev/ttyUSB0 (or just ttyUSB0) port if I typed it in manually.
>  I finally decided just to try it anyway, and it worked.  I guess that what
> was happening is that the server was already grabbing the port, which was
> listed in config.xml, so it wasn't available to be discovered or (re-)used
> by the wizard.  Is that a fair guess?
>
> In any case, these particular cheap, no-name USB/Serial adapters from
> China seem to work reasonably well for DriveWire.  At least they're worth
> the pittance you pay for them as a quick and dirty way to add a serial port
> to a computer with only USB.  Now I need to try it out on the Raspberry Pi.
>
> JCE
>
> On 12/25/2013 11:22 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> Finally, while my experience with prolific adapters has been great, there
>> are plenty of folks who think they are junk.  Maybe some of them are?  If
>> you can connect a to another PC it would be worth confirming you can pass
>> data at 115k or whatever rate you use on the FPGA board.  If it works in
>> minicom or any terminal program, it will very likely work fine with DW.
>>
>> Good luck..
>>
>> On Dec 25, 2013 10:42 PM, "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to get DW4.3.30 working in a somewhat new environment with
>>>
>> poor luck...
>> I have one of these USB/Serial thingies.  It's a Prolific -- cheap and
>> sucky, but Aaron says they work for him, right?...
>>
>
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