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kblume

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Hi,

My Keyspan USA-19HS serial adapter used to work just fine with Parallels Desktop 2.x, but with version 3.0 it won’t. When I use it to download files to my ham radio, it transmits and almost finishes it; then the ‘Windows Blue Screen of Doom’ pops up telling me to disable caching and shadowing in the BIOS. After restart, Windows XP says that it recovered from a fatal error and wants to report it to Microsoft. I think I report it to Parallels Desktop instead...

Cheers,

Klaus
 
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Hello Mike,

The USA-19HS has not been tested by our developers. We can not currently guarantee this USB work in Parallels Desktop. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused. We are working hard to improve USB support in future versions.

Best regards,
Xenos
 
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Build 5600 doesn't seem to incorporate build 5582.5 fixes

On 01-28-2008 at 08:26 AM Xenos wrote:
Glad to know that your ePadInk is working again with Parallels. Thank you for the feedback. The next public release will incorporate the 5582.5 fixes.
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I've installed build 5600 and the ePadInk is again not working, with the same symptoms as before. Must I downgrade again?

-Robert
 
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Downgrading from 5560 to 5582.5 works - curtly

lenoil said:
I've installed build 5600 and the ePadInk is again not working, with the same symptoms as before. Must I downgrade again?

-Robert
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It look's like. Here I tried to upgrade the firmware of an HTC TyTN II, with no luck. Connection failed anywhere between 0 and 13% of the progress bar.

Downgraded to 5582.5; running it caused some funny pink areas in the mac's screen outside of the pc's window - but the firmware upgrade went trough.

For the records: MacBook Pro C2D 2,33, 10.5.3 German, Parallels 5560 Engl., XP2 SP2 German

Good Luck!
 
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This is caused by 10.5.3 update and fix is in build 5608, but this doesn't have that compatibility level
Workarounds
- Downgrade to 10.5.2 (not sure good idea)
- Use Windows in full screen or Coherence

USB interface will be completely changed in Parallels Desktop ver 4 which planing to be published this summer
 
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Has your development team looked at virtual box? (http://www.virtualbox.org/). Their implementation of USB support with respect to the user Interface is orders of magnitude better the Parallels support. I find it near impossible to know which usb device to choose from the list, when one has 4 or more of the exact same USB hardware(as in disks) attached to your Mac. If the disk label could be used to help identify, that would be a very welcome enhancement.
 

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Hi to all,

some months later I see the following:

Had to upgrade the firmware of an UMTS-Mouse via USB, it's an Huawei 220 sold by T-Mobile. Parallels 5608 failed with same symptoms as before, but 5582.5 which I actually kept did the trick.

XP SP3, 10.5.5
 
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Neat Receipts

Is there any update on the USB problem?

I just purchased a NeatReceipts product to use and it doesn't work under Parallels (crashes as described). Neat Receipts says that they do not support Parallels and my only choice is to inquire here to see if there is a work around (that doesn't involve stepping back to 10.5.2 or Build 5582.5.)

I am currently running OS X 10.5.5 and Parallels Build 5624 (which as I understand is a work around version for Linux that i got a few weeks back) So is there any update on when v4 is coming out or is there a new version that might fix this USB problem until v4 comes out?

BTW: I am running Microsoft Vista SP1 in Full Screen Mode only and the problem exists there as well.

Thanks in Advance for your help.

-JNagy
 
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John, thanks for the reply.

I understand not rolling back the OS X version. However rolling back Parallels to 5582.5 will break the issues that i had running the latest version of Linux Ubuntu v8.04.
 
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Tried USB to Serial can't get it to work. I have DYNEX DX-UBDB9 with a PL2303 Chip. Latest 1.2.1r2.dmg & PL2303_Driver_XP2K_v204012 drivers from http://www.prolific.com.tw. Parallels-Desktop-5582.5-Mac-en.dmg MacOSX 10.5.5 I reverted back to 5608build and my work around is to use the USB to Serial on the Mac and run a Serial Client to map it to the Parallels Com Port Device instead of using the Parallels Usb Device.
 
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