Postby jlightguy » 01 May 2007, 16:30
I used this discussion as reference when I was looking to adapt my laptop to run with the visualizer, so I will leave this info for anyone looking in the future...
I ended up purchasing a BELKIN USB-to-Serial Portable Adapter at the local Staples store ($29.99 USA). At first try my Pearl 2008 would not communicate, but I realized that I needed to go into the device manager settings for the serial adapter and change the COM port # to 1. It defaulted to COM4 upon installation. Once I did this things worked quite well. Also, the adapter is quite small, actually a small dongle with a USB cord coming out of one end. Lots of pretty indicater lights, too! WE LOVE OUR RBL's & GBL's!
Hope this helps someone in the future with the same issues I had...