[time-nuts] How to run Lady Heather under Windows10

[David J Taylor]

There are multiple possible issues:

1) Most (like 99.99%) new laptops do not have a com port, that gets you to 
some sort of external port
2) USB is pretty common, but as mentioned in another thread, ethernet and 
bluetooth are also quite possible.
3) Since it is an external bus, the connection it’s self may be down (bad 
cable / hub / out of range / turned off …)
4) Assuming the connection is there, you now need drivers. They have to 
match both the device and the OS

Yes, this is “fun”. It’s hardly restricted to serial ports or to any one OS. 
My $6 Chinese clone programming adapters
just stopped working when the FPGA vendor upgraded their software. Oddly 
enough, the vendor’s $300 adapter still
works fine with the new drivers. Since I didn’t pay $294 for the IP 
protection when I bought my clones … that’s the way
it works. Hopefully there will be new clones along “real soon now”.

If your (a wild guess) USB serial adapter is not being recognized, I’d check 
the driver status in your OS. Google is
quite helpful coming up with multiple screen shots of how to get to the 
right screen for just about any OS version on
the planet. That screen will show you if the driver is installed and what 
com port the driver decided to use. The port number
is a driver (not os) decision in many cases. It could just as easily be 
Com56 as Com1. The drivers do this so they don’t
“duplicate” a previous assignment.

Lots of fun…

Bob
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Bob,

USB to serial, I can recommend:

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004ZMYTYC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

which works well under Windows-10.  It has an FTDI chipset and not a copy. 
Must be about US $20.

Whatever I'm using to talk to my Arduino board also works - ah, that's a 
genuine FTDI chipset as well.  But I do have a PL???? cable which also works 
nicely.

I certainly don't think that needing to upgrade drivers or a single piece of 
hardware is a sufficient reason for someone to swap back to Win-7.

Cheers,
David
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