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

[Bruce W. Calkins]

This website addresses the Prolific Clone USB-to-serial adapter under 
Windows issue fairly well.
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php
Bruce W.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Ewy"

> 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