I have been struggling to set up a USB->Serial communication cable so I can talk to an electric car controller. The problem is that on my XPpro laptop, there was no COM port folder, and the driver for the cable doesn't seem to install.
I found a way to create a COM folder under Device manager:
- click 'Action' tab
- 'add legacy hardware', next
- radio click 'install manually'
- select 'PORTS'
this did create a COM4, but it shows conflicting resources and not functioning correctly.
Install of the serial driver doesn't show up, so I cannot configure to a functional COM port, so I cannot configure Putty to run (instead of the old HyperTerm I used to use on an older machine).
The question boils down to how to create a functional COM port in XP pro ?!
I found a way to create a COM folder under Device manager:
- click 'Action' tab
- 'add legacy hardware', next
- radio click 'install manually'
- select 'PORTS'
this did create a COM4, but it shows conflicting resources and not functioning correctly.
Install of the serial driver doesn't show up, so I cannot configure to a functional COM port, so I cannot configure Putty to run (instead of the old HyperTerm I used to use on an older machine).
The question boils down to how to create a functional COM port in XP pro ?!
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