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Offline ccdjr106Topic starter

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homework board
« on: July 20, 2009, 07:55:28 PM »
i have the parallax homework board and i have a lap top that i need to connect  it to that has no serial port i have the giga ware usb to serial cable and i can get the homework board to show up on the parallax software but when you go to identify the loopback says no and when i try to transfer code i get an error the laptop has windows  7
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Re: homework board
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2009, 08:40:09 PM »
I've had bad results with using parallax items with usb/serial converters, apparently they need a certain command that not all usb/serial converters can handle.
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Offline ccdjr106Topic starter

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Re: homework board
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2009, 08:42:59 PM »
do you know of one that works
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