Hey I am trying to program an icom mobile radio using a Prolific USB serial cable. My understanding is this cable acts like an RS-232 cable for the program and outputs via USB. It came with a nifty XP driver and everything(driver is listed under LPT1 and COM in the device manager). This DOS program keeps telling me that the RS-232 port is unavailable. Do I need to enable a virtual serial port in the XP guest? Do I need to go on the host side and specify a pipe? I tried messing with that and it confused the hell out of me.
I can transfer from a program that thinks it's outputting to an RS-232 port when it's really going to this USB-serial cable right?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
i7 920 processor
nvidia geforce 9600gs
6 gb ram
640gb hd
ubuntu 9.04 jaunty
xp pro
virtualbox 2.2.2 (NOT OSE)