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serial and USB ports look all the way different - serial is standard 9 pin connection while USB looks like a small long thin hole, less that 1cm long and 2mm thick. if you have that port - fine, only check that USB is enabled in BIOS.<br />
if you don't - well, then contact your laptop company and check for the data on your model.<br />
anyway - in case you use Windows 95 (not OSR2 and 2.1) - you DON'T have Windows support for USB, so you can't use it. Upgrade to Win98.<br />

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serial and USB ports look all the way different - serial is standard 9 pin connection while USB looks like a small long thin hole, less that 1cm long and 2mm thick. if you have that port - fine, only check that USB is enabled in BIOS.
if you don't - well, then contact your laptop company and check for the data on your model.
anyway - in case you use Windows 95 (not OSR2 and 2.1) - you DON'T have Windows support for USB, so you can't use it. Upgrade to Win98.


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I have a new lap-top that has a serial port. The lap-top has USB support. Does that mean that the serial port will work with USB devices?<br />
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The reason I ask is that my desktop has a port indicated in writing &quot;usb port&quot; but the lap-top just says serial port.
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I have a new lap-top that has a serial port. The lap-top has USB support. Does that mean that the serial port will work with USB devices?

The reason I ask is that my desktop has a port indicated in writing "usb port" but the lap-top just says serial port.

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