Hey,
My boss put me in charge of getting this pin pad device to work with our software.
We have it plugging into the usb port with a converter cable that converts it to a rs232 port. This converter cable uses the pl2303 driver to aid with this.
I am new to drivers, particularly on the windows OS. My question is how do I use this driver to communicate with the device?
I'm trying to read into it but am being overloaded by information and I think I could use some help. I was reading something about using the win32 api and using create file to get a handle? I found this to be quite confusing and am having trouble finding examples of how to use this handle. Isn't there just some standard I/O library I can use to communicate? Please help!
Here's some info on the device:
2 ] : [USB DEVICE] on Port 1 Address : 2
uniqueID : USB/Adr_2&Port_1&Vid_067b&Pid_2303&Rev_0400&Ver_0110&DevClass_00&DevSubClass_00&NumC_01
driverKeyName : {4d36e978-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000
friendlyDeviceName: Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port
Object Type : Device, DeviceImpl, NonJUSB
Device Descriptor:
bcdUSB : 1.1
Device Class : 0 ( device )
Device Subclass : 0
Device Protocol : 0
Max Packet Size : 64
idVendor : 1659 0x67b
idProduct : 8963 0x2303
bcdDevice release number : 4.0
iManufacturer : 1
iProduct : 2
iSerialNumber : 0
NumConfiguration : 1
Configuration Descriptor:
wTotalLength : 39
bNumInterfaces : 1
bConfigurationValue : 1
bmAttributes : 160 Device supports Remote Wakeup!
bMaxPower : 50 ( 100mA)
Interface Descriptor[0]:
bInterfaceNumber : 0
bAlternateSetting : 0
bNumEndpoints : 3
bInterfaceClass : 255
bInterfaceSubClass : 0
bInterfaceProtocol : 0
iInterface : 0
Interface[0] Endpoint Descriptor[0]:
bEndpointAdress : 1 IN Pipe Data flows from Device to Host
bmAttributes : 3 Type: interrupt
bMaxPacketSize : 10
bInterval : 1
getEndpoint : 129 81
Interface[0] Endpoint Descriptor[1]:
bEndpointAdress : 2 OUT Pipe Data flows from Host to Device
bmAttributes : 2 Type: bulk
bMaxPacketSize : 64
bInterval : 0
getEndpoint : 2 2
Interface[0] Endpoint Descriptor[2]:
bEndpointAdress : 3 IN Pipe Data flows from Device to Host
bmAttributes : 2 Type: bulk
bMaxPacketSize : 64
bInterval : 0
getEndpoint : 131 83
