Setting up USB-Serial adapter with Tera Term

I installed a Serial-USB adapter so I can console into my devices from my laptop. How do I go about setting it up in Tera Term? How do I know what COM port to use?

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dynamik

Check device manager for some hints, otherwise just trial and error (you should only have a few anyway).

yanks4everontop

dynamik wrote: »

Check device manager for some hints, otherwise just trial and error (you should only have a few anyway).

Thanks, completely passed over it in Device Manager before.

Netwurk

yanks4everontop wrote: »

Thanks, completely passed over it in Device Manager before.

What USB adapter did you get? Some day I'll need to get one as boxes with the old 9-pin serial ports are on their way out

human151

I use terraterm, com3

yanks4everontop

Netwurk wrote: »

What USB adapter did you get? Some day I'll need to get one as boxes with the old 9-pin serial ports are on their way out

I bought one from RadioShack. I had meant to buy one online because they are so much cheaper but I really didn't want to wait any longer. Worked out well though, detected right away by Vista (XP needed Drivers CD) and works great.