

Some of them _do_ work, but I've received one report that one didn't.

They seem to switch vendors really often, so that when you ask for a "USB to serial adapter", we're not entirely sure what you get. Tonight after a short car trip.Unfortunately, that's a hard thing to do because Radio Shack is notorious for changing their products while keeping the same name. The Keyspan gets it's power from the USB connection, and in turn provides it to the MS100 One on the Radio Shack website, no mention of power there either.It doesn't need a separate power adapter (wall wart). I read all the web stuff on how I need a USB to Serial DB9 The JMRI site says to avoid Belkin.Īll I want to do is move my trusty MS100 from the old crummy laptop toĪt 9:28 PM +0000 6/10/05, Glenn Koproske wrote: Litchfield Station sells a cable called UN8BE but doesn't mention the I will be a whole lot easier if this JMRI group will officiallyĪnnoint the Radio Shack adapter as suitable, and then I can have one One on the Radio Shack website, no mention of power there either. Well, the Keyspan adapter doesn't come with a power adapter. On the JMRI site that says the MS100 needs power through the RS232 I read all the web stuff on how I need a USB to Serial DB9Īdapter, and do use the Keyspan brand and all that. I just inherited a newer notebook from my son that is WinXP with all I have a junky old Win98 notebook that works fine with an MS100, but The Keyspan "US 19HS" will work with the MS100 on Win98, no
