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Dearborn adapter woes
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I havent messed with it yet. I use a dearborn ive had for years. I used to use an old cat et clone that worked fine it just fell apart one day. If you have a c7 truck and can’t connect you have to select canbus in the settings.
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What COM port is the USB to serial adapter set to? Does it show up properly in windows device manager?
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Yep, you should be able to see it come and go in device manager when you plug it in and unplug it, and what com port it is calling itself, so you can select that com port in the app if necessary.
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Alternatively - The Dell 7214 rugged laptops that the military currently uses for the MSD-V4 are rather inexpensive used and they have hardware serial ports. Excellent diagnostic laptop to keep in your truck and pair with a STE-ICE test kit.
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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.
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.
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I’ll be shopping for one of the rugged Dell’s with the serial port.
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I have had similar issues with getting a laptop to talk to an ecu using a USB-serial adapter, and in that case what solved it was this:
On your laptop go to control panel, then devices, then select the usb to serial adapter and look at the info that is displayed. It will often tell you what the chipset is that it uses, and you can search the net for drivers for that specific chip. Manually install them, and see if that fixes it. It did for me.
On your laptop go to control panel, then devices, then select the usb to serial adapter and look at the info that is displayed. It will often tell you what the chipset is that it uses, and you can search the net for drivers for that specific chip. Manually install them, and see if that fixes it. It did for me.
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Yes and don't use no name ones... Tripp Lite Keyspan one is the only one I have used somewhat reliable...