mattschinkel wrote:
> Rob,
> 
>>> Serial port hardware does not need drivers.
>> Wrong! All OS-s need drivers for serial ports (DOS came with none, so
>> DOS communications programs needed to include some sort of driver).
> 
> What I ment was, the hardware that plugs into the serial port does not
> require drivers. such as my programmer or any PIC connected to your
> rs232 port.
> 
> Of course USB is pleasing to some. Boards like Jaluino should come out
> in more then one form. USB version and Serial version.
> 
>> Microchip knows only about Windoze....
> As you say microchip supports windows drivers, not linux. So linux
> users must use serial.

We also use the serial-> usb adapters in linux.  On my amd64 box I don't 
have a serial or parallel connector

> microchip shows a 5 pin ICSP adapter in there documentation
> http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/30277d.pdf
> 
> However there PICKIT 2 & PICKIT 3 programmers uses 6 pins!

I have ICSP on all of my breadboards for programming with my PICkit2. 
You are correct the that the PICkit2 uses a 6 pin connector but, if you 
looked at the PICkit2 manual, you would see that pin 6 does not have a 
connection.


Wayne

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