I have been using a little prog called Serial Port Mapper which is very good and allows me to use a 'virtual' serial port on my usb equipped netbook. The problem is the software has a 14 day time limit and they want about £40 for the full version - a bit steep IMO (but then I'm a bit of a cheapskate with software)

Does anyone know of any freeware that does the same job? Alternatively I have a wealth of software for swapsies if preferred

I dont quite understand what you are trying to do..

Do you have a USB to serial adapter? If you do, it should have some drivers... and then windows can emulate the com-port via the USB devices drivers...

I bought a USB to Serial adapter for my EEE PC netbook (I think it cost £2.50 from the auction site). Used the standard supplied drivers.

As long as I plug it in before I start TuneStudio is seems to be fine.

The drivers are not the problem - I have got one of the eBay usb-serial convertor cables which work a treat.
The problem is that the convertor changes my usb/serial ports to numbers that my mapping software doesn't recognise (ports 7 to 12 I think). I need to remap the ports so that they get back to the lower com port numbers.

[Edited on 13-4-10 by RazMan]

Hi Raz,

right click on my computer, click manage,

on the list on the left had side click 'device manger'

then on the tree in the right of the window expand 'Ports (Com & LPT)'

Right click on the usb to serial convertor, click properties, go to the port setting tab.

Click advanced.

at the bottom of the new window is a drop down list allowing you to change the Com Port Number.

Hopefully that will sort it
Project

[Edited on 13/4/10 by Project7]

Aha! Well, they say that you should learn a new thing every day ...... and I can now go to bed with a better education now

Spot on Project7 - all sorted now.

i could do with a bit of help if you don't mind lads i have a old Sony vaio lap top it does not have a serial port so I got a card from e bay its a pcmcia to rs232 but if i put dta swin program on it says can not connect on all 1 to 5 com ports hmmm not sure how to make it work so help would be nice

Hi Paul,

Follow my instruction above through to the part where you expand 'Ports (Com & LPT)'

Your PCMCIA card should be listed with the assigned COM port in brackets.

I'm assuming the DTA software will only let you choose between com 1 and 5.

If the PCMCIA card has been assigned a Com Port greater than this, carrying on following my instructions to change the com port number.

If that fails, we'll try something else.