Correction -- the Cambridge connection to an Ipaq is not USB. As I
said, I am lost.




Greg Arnold wrote:
You have lost me. However, I do know that my Belkin adapter works fine
with the LX-5000, but not at all with a Cambridge 302. I also know that
the Cambridge 302 works fine with the USB connection to an Ipaq.



Marc Ramsey wrote:

Greg Arnold wrote:

I have a digital camera, a laser printer, and an Ipaq, all with USB
connectors, and all work fine on my Windows computer. Why would the
Colibri be different?



Why would a USB-to-serial converter be different?

Because the drivers for most digital cameras (which are actually USB
"mass storage devices"), and low-level printer drivers are included
with the Windows 2K/XP. The generic USB PocketPC driver is now also
included in XP, and both HP and Microsoft have a vested interest in
making sure it works properly.

The USB-equipped flight recorders I have seen all look like USB serial
devices, for which a vendor supplied device driver is required.
Flight recorder vendors don't build their own drivers, they
redistribute whatever driver is supplied by the chip manufacturer
which, strangely enough, happen to be the exact same drivers supplied
along with USB-to-serial converters that use the same chip family.