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I’ll be shopping for one of the rugged Dell’s with the serial port.

That was the plan for this old laptop. Just to live in the truck and diagnose issues. COM port 3, yes I can see it in the device manager. I’ll have some time tomorrow or Sunday to mess around with it some more.

Yeah I wish I knew that. I’m about $200 into the setup I have now. What version Nexiq clone?

I tried the different J1708 and 1939. I think I’ve got a problem with the USB to serial adapter at the moment.

I’ll go try these suggestions and report back. Thanks!

I hadn’t tried the compatibility mode. I’ll query my local tech guru for that. Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll see what I can do with that. I really don’t want to buy another laptop for a dang serial port.

Understood…. I have three laptops. None of which have a serial port to include an old engineering laptop. That’s running Win 7 ( never connected to the web) and a newer running Win 11. I do have a MacBook, but would obviously be needing the serial adapter .

Hey all, Ive got one of the Dearborn adapter DPA III Plus units. I’ll put the picture below. But I can’t get it to communicate with a laptop at all. I’ve used two different laptops with different versions of software. Additionally I’ve got two different USB to serial adapters that you need to...