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Sorry if this is a repeat, but my Laptop has a female serial port, and the cable supplied has a female end.
My question, has anyone had this siuation?  And did a simple 9-pin male to male adaptor solve the problem?
Or, what was your resolution?
Thanks in advance.

I don't believe it has a serial port on it. What you are most likely looking at is the VGA port. You can get a USB-Serial adapter fairly cheap off ebay though.

Sorry if this is a repeat, but my Laptop has a female serial port, and the cable supplied has a female end.
My question, has anyone had this siuation?  And did a simple 9-pin male to male adaptor solve the problem?
Or, what was your resolution?
Thanks in advance.

Look VERY closely at the D style connector on your laptop - I'm guessing there are 3 rows of pins instead of the 2 usually found on the serial port.

As Assaf says, it's rather doubtful that a relatively new laptop has a serial port on it, most do not - instead they have USB ports and interface that way. Takes less space and there does seem to be a trend to USB instead of the "classic serial port".

Tom

You're right.  Tor a monitorhe port on the laptop is for a monitor.  Sorry 'bout that.
So, I will order the USB-1 cable to I can customize this scanner.
Thanks for your help.