Symbol 8800 Bar code scanner

[stuaz]

Hello All,

I have a Symbol 8800 on a cradle station, the cradle has a Ethernet to Serial connector.

I then have a serial connector to USB cable which means I can plug it into my laptop which lacks a Serial port.

A week or so ago, I could sync the PDA (Via Active Sync) but it would only sync once, then Active Sync would fail to recognise the Symbol scanner.

So I tried to reinstall Active Sync to no avail, and I even downgraded. (Currently running the latest version). However now I cannot even get the Scanner to connect at all. (It is running Pocket PC).

Active Sync does work fine for other PDA's I have. I have tried different wires but no luck. I also have done hard resets of the PDA.

Thanks in advance.

[stuaz]

Ok, I think I have got a bit further. I managed to get the PDA recognised on a Laptop WITH a serial port (So no Serial to USB cable).

Then on my laptop (Without a serial port) I noticed the driver for the serial converter is on Com Port 7 - but active sync in the options is only looking on port 5. And the drop down doesn't list any other ports to choose from...

[stuaz]

Ok, Active Sync detects on first reboot of my Laptop but then will no longer see the PDA, if I go through the motions of 'searching' for a device then the PDA acts like it knows the Computer is there because I get the prompt on the screen whcih says "connecting" but then it doesn't actually connect.