thank you Topper & Jimbo....do you know of ANY way to make this Usb to serial work... or will i have to go and buy a PCMCIA to serial adapter.. again is there a difference between a serial and a Null Modem? please check out this link and tell me if this adapter would hopefully be able to work and is infact a null modem cable.
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i tried with another laptop.still didnt work .. yes i dont have a desktop and none of my laptops have serial ports....so i need to have some solid working connection.