Hi, Martin,

Thanks for letting us know. I looked at Larry's website immediately
before posting to see whether he was still selling serial converters.
They are still listed on his site.

Yes, they are still listed on Larry's web site. Since he did not list
a US dealer, though, I called him - and that's when I found out from
Larry himself that he doesn't sell them anymore.

I must admit I've only used his converter under Linux, so the driver
issue is a complete mystery to me. In Linux the USB serial converter
driver is a kernel plugin. This points up the question: if Linux can
include automatically selected drivers that work with all the chips you
mention and a lot more besides (41 drivers in total for Fedora 9), why is
it so hard for M$ to do the same or for the converter manufacturers to
supply just one decent driver for each Windows version?

I'm pretty sure this is a religious question as regards M$! grin As
to why the converter manufacturer can't do as you suggest, Larry's
answer was that they didn't care enough about the customer to write a
decent driver. Since that violated his business sense, he quit selling
their product...

-John