TheCP210x USB to UART Bridge Virtual COM Port (VCP) drivers are required for device operation as a Virtual COM Port to facilitate host communication with CP210x products. These devices can also interface to a host using the direct access driver.
The CP210x Manufacturing DLL and Runtime DLL have been updated and must be used with v 6.0 and later of the CP210x Windows VCP Driver. Application Note Software downloads affected are AN144SW.zip, AN205SW.zip and AN223SW.zip. If you are using a 5.x driver and need support you can download Legacy OS Software.
First, just to be sure we are talking about the same thing, open up
the Windows Device Manager (using your favorite method) on both
computers. Look down the tree to a branch labelled "Other
devices". Open that branch. You should see a branch labelled "PST
Port I/O Driver" on both computers. If you do not see that on the
troubled computer, then it does not have the driver installed.Anyway, you probably need to repair or reinstall the Port I/O
driver. As it turns out, this error message and several other common
ones are listed in PST Knowledge Base article #3000, a good reference
for us all to look at first in the future (you will have to log in as
a registered E-Prime user). I don't think PST will mind if I just
post the entry for your error, so I will spare you the trouble in
just this case:"The port driver is needed for read/write port calls and for using
the Port Device. Try running a repair on your E-Prime installation
(via the Add/Remove Programs utility in Windows Control Panel), and
also run the PortDriverInstaller.exe file to install the port driver.
You can download the PortDriverInstaller.exe from the User's Area by
clicking the Download/Misc links. Then restart your machine and try
running again (note this file will not work under Windows 98/ME)"-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers cause the USB device to appear as an additional COM port available to the PC. Application software can access the USB device in the This page contains the VCP drivers currently available for FTDI devices.
Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers cause the USB device to appear as an additional COM port available to the PC. Application software can access the USB device in the same way as it would access a standard COM port.
If a custom vendor ID and/or product ID or description string are used, it is the responsibility of the product manufacturer to maintain any changes and subsequent WHCK re-certification as a result of making these changes.
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Putty and LabVIEW natively knows how to commutate with a real or fake COM port. Note: The 2XX drivers with LabVIEW have been a three day nightmare (multiple options tested , each in a different failure , most with compound failures)
I suspect (hope) the COM port is good. However I can type anything into Putty COM3 terminal and nothing comes back. I was hoping for an text error message or even gibberish (binary response), but no luck.
If nothing is one the other side, you can't expect anything to come back. A simple test would be to connect the RX line to the TX line. This will not be a loop back and whatever you write you will read right back.
Thanks for the quick response. With the USB to FT232H adapter pugged in, there is a virtual COM3. With the adapter unplugged from PC , COM3 vanishes. COM3 is not real, but it should be able to pass data.
The VCP option for the FTDI chip simply creates a serial port. It is a transparent port and you can NOT talk to the FTDI chip in that way. Anything you send to the serial port is send out on the digital side of the chip either as TTL (3.3V or 5V) or as RS-232 or RS-485 port to whatever is connected on that port. If you do not connect a device to this side there is NOTHING you can talk with, unless you do the loopback test as explained by crossrulz. In this way whatever you send out through the port will be possible to read back through the serial port. You can NOT use the serial chip for SPI, I2C or any of the other special interface modes with this driver version.
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