Hi

I use an USB2SERIAL from Aten (www.aten.com.tw). There you will also
find any driver for win98,win2k and XP AND ALSO FOR MAC OS9 and OSX!
I use it for Filser LX400 and LX20 (it is like a LX5000 concerning the
HW) and it works very well. I once tryed an usb2serial from my Palm Vx
with little success. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The
adapter is very important in combination with the laptop. You have to
try it. Even with the serial only connection we had problems with some
PC-Hardware!
Lucky guys down under who have to pay 10 bugs for such cables, here in
Switzerland we have to pay 60 bugs!

Hope this helps.

FW

Mike Lindsay wrote in message ...
In article , CV
writes

I had the same trouble when I bought a new laptop.
Our local computer shop sold me a thingy which plugs into a USB port and
has an RS232 socket which you can use for your logger.

I think it is called a USB to serial bridge. It came with a CD to
install the software it needs. It works fine with my EW logger.

Hello all,
My old portable PC packed up definitely a few weeks ago and
when I started looking around for a new one I found that
none of them have the old traditional serial port anymore !?

This rather leaves me in the lurch with the Filser GPS-logger
in my glider, since the interface is over a cable that connects
to the serial port.

I imagine there may be others here who have come up agaist
the same thing. Can anyone point me to a solution ?

The model is Filser DX-50, functionally equivalent to the Lx5000
I am told, and possibly this particular problem will be the
same for some other models as well.

Cheers CV