Re: [Bitpim-devel] libusb

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

Here is an example of comscan on my machine.  [I would
have included this in the last message, except I found
a bug in comscan that I have now fixed]

COM1:
 active: True  available: True  description: Communications Port (COM1)
 driverdate: (2001, 7, 1)  driverdescription: Communications Port
 driverprovider: Microsoft  driverversion: 5.1.2600.0
 hardwareinstance: ACPI\PNP0501\1

COM2:
 active: True  available: True  description: Communications Port (COM2)
 driverdate: (2001, 7, 1)  driverdescription: Communications Port
 driverprovider: Microsoft  driverversion: 5.1.2600.0
 hardwareinstance: ACPI\PNP0501\2

COM5:
 active: False  available: False
 description: Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (COM5)
 driverdate: (2002, 4, 9)
 driverdescription: Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port
 driverprovider: Prolific  driverversion: 1.5.0.0
 hardwareinstance: USB\VID_067B&PID_2303\6&32D8FA8&0&3

COM6:
 active: True  available: True
 description: Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (COM6)
 driverdate: (2002, 4, 9)
 driverdescription: Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port
 driverprovider: Prolific  driverversion: 1.5.0.0
 hardwareinstance: USB\VID_067B&PID_2303\6&32D8FA8&0&4

COM1 and COM2 are the onboard ports.  COM5 and COM6 are the USB to serial
ports.  Note how I can detect the USB info in the hardwareinstance.
The reason why it lists both COM5 and 6 is that I have a hub
and it assigns each position in the hub a different hardware
instance.  I only have one cable so it doesn't matter, but
if I had 4 cables it would be needed to tell the difference.
That is also why COM5 is neither active nor available since
it isn't plugged in.

Roger