Manglemender
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As laptops with serial ports become harder to buy, has anyone tried using a Bluetooth or WiFi serial port adapter?
Siemens Step5 software seems to be the most challenging application to run as it only seems to work if you have a real 16450/16550 UART chip. This leads me to a second question Step5 runs on a VMware virtual machine no problem but does VMWare emulate the serial port or does it "Pass Throuth?
I have used a Moxa serial port server to communicate with Control Techniques drives sucessfully. The server is connected via ethernet and the driver emulates the serial ports. I haven't tried this with Siemens Step5 software but would be interested to know whether anyone else has tried it.
Nick
Siemens Step5 software seems to be the most challenging application to run as it only seems to work if you have a real 16450/16550 UART chip. This leads me to a second question Step5 runs on a VMware virtual machine no problem but does VMWare emulate the serial port or does it "Pass Throuth?
I have used a Moxa serial port server to communicate with Control Techniques drives sucessfully. The server is connected via ethernet and the driver emulates the serial ports. I haven't tried this with Siemens Step5 software but would be interested to know whether anyone else has tried it.
Nick