Re: Serial camera + RS232 > USB adapter

Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:
Hi,

I have acquired a RS232 to USB adapter, which is working well with FC6 (tested
with GPS) briefly.
My question is I have a very old Serial port digital camera that digiKam
refuses to work with, Its listed but I have never managed to get it to work. I
had to resort to using the M$ software in Wine.

I wonder if it would be possible to use the USB>Serial adapter somehow,
googleing around has yet to shed any information on this.

Cheers
Colin
One thing to be careful about when using USB to RS232 adapters is that
most of the ones I have seen do not support the status/control lines.
This can cause problems with devices that use hardware handshaking, or
use the status lines for device detection. For example, you can not
control a "dumb" UPS. You may have problems using a modem on them. If
the camera or software depends on them, then it will also fail.

Mikkel
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