I just took delivery of a new Colibri 4.0 with USB
connector. The manual says that the Colibri has a built in
USB/232 adapter.

/Robert


Marc Ramsey skrev:
Greg Arnold wrote:

I have a digital camera, a laser printer, and an Ipaq, all with USB
connectors, and all work fine on my Windows computer. Why would the
Colibri be different?


Why would a USB-to-serial converter be different?

Because the drivers for most digital cameras (which are actually USB
"mass storage devices"), and low-level printer drivers are included with
the Windows 2K/XP. The generic USB PocketPC driver is now also included
in XP, and both HP and Microsoft have a vested interest in making sure
it works properly.

The USB-equipped flight recorders I have seen all look like USB serial
devices, for which a vendor supplied device driver is required. Flight
recorder vendors don't build their own drivers, they redistribute
whatever driver is supplied by the chip manufacturer which, strangely
enough, happen to be the exact same drivers supplied along with
USB-to-serial converters that use the same chip family.