USB SIM Card Reader Problems

I recently got a SIM card reader for my dad. Not grasping the
"things are cheap for a reason" routine, he just wanted the
cheapest he could find. I got one off ebay and it arrived today.

All installed fine but the software doesn't work (in Win2000 or XP) -
it crashes when you try to access the card reader.

The device shows up as
"USB to UART Bridge Controller (COM3)" in device manager
under com and lpt ports.

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas of any other bits of software
that might be able to access it.

Cheers
-David

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:37:45 -0000, no@spam.invalid
(davidfowler2000) wrote:

>I recently got a SIM card reader for my dad. Not grasping the
>"things are cheap for a reason" routine, he just wanted the
>cheapest he could find. I got one off ebay and it arrived today.
>
>All installed fine but the software doesn't work (in Win2000 or XP) -
>it crashes when you try to access the card reader.
>
>The device shows up as
>"USB to UART Bridge Controller (COM3)" in device manager
>under com and lpt ports.
>
>I was wondering if anyone has any ideas of any other bits of software
>that might be able to access it.
>
>Cheers
>-David

Link to this product, or better yet, if you have the
manufacturer's website URL, link that too. There may be a
newer driver and/or software available.

I'm going to guess that it should not show up under Com/LPT
in Device Manager, so if you found both a newer driver and
software, try the driver first.