ftdi installed - how to test serial connection!

hi!

i have installed the vcp driver for FTDI FT232BM. i tested the newly
established port with vcp driver and it worked. bytes were written and
received (loopback).

nevertheless the new port isn't established in the hyperterminal -
therefore it isn't possible for me to establish a real serial terminal
conection between two computers!
can you help how i could test this or alternativly how to communicate
with the new serial port!

thx,

news
Wed Nov 30 16:31:47 CST 2005

What registry settings have you got

I use these
; Added for FTDI Driver
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\USB\FTDI_DEVICE_FA04]
"Prefix"="COM"
"Dll"="ftdi_ser.dll"
"ConfigData"=hex:\

01,00,3f,3f,10,27,88,13,c4,09,e2,04,71,02,38,41,9c,80,4e,c0,34,00,1a,00,0d,\
00,06,40,03,80,00,00,d0,80
"InitialIndex"=dword:00000000
"DeviceArrayIndex"=dword:00000000
"LatencyTimer"=dword:00000010

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\USB\LoadClients\1027_64004\Default\Default\FTDI_
DEVICE]
"DLL"="ftdi_ser.dll"

The 1027_64003 will need to be changed according to your device.

The InitialIndex of 0 produces a COM0 on my system, I don 't use
hyperterminal with it so don't know if this would be a problem if it is a
problem try setting InitialIndex to 1.

Paul

"coyote" <robs@sbg.at> wrote in message
news:1133356165.023143.102060@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> hi!
>
> i have installed the vcp driver for FTDI FT232BM. i tested the newly
> established port with vcp driver and it worked. bytes were written and
> received (loopback).
>
> nevertheless the new port isn't established in the hyperterminal -
> therefore it isn't possible for me to establish a real serial terminal
> conection between two computers!
> can you help how i could test this or alternativly how to communicate
> with the new serial port!
>
> thx,
>

coyote
Thu Dec 01 04:37:54 CST 2005

yes i nearly have the same settings! could it be that i have to insert
something additional to the registry in order to implement the new vcp
in hyperterminal. do you know a special program to download which makes
it possible to dedect the new virtual com port and test a serial
connection to another user!

Paul
Thu Dec 01 06:36:43 CST 2005

I don't know of a suitable program our SW engineer has searched the registry
under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\DRIVERS\ACTIVE for an entry with a key value of
drivers\usb\ftdi_device\fa04 and then used the name value at this point to
get the com port number. I would have thought that if the com number was in
the range 1-4 then hyperterminal should work.

Paul

"coyote" <robs@sbg.at> wrote in message
news:1133433474.237445.69880@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> yes i nearly have the same settings! could it be that i have to insert
> something additional to the registry in order to implement the new vcp
> in hyperterminal. do you know a special program to download which makes
> it possible to dedect the new virtual com port and test a serial
> connection to another user!
>