I've got a custom board with an MSP430FR5969 connected to a MAX3221EIPWR RS232 transceiver on the eUSCI_A0 UART pins (P2.0 and P2.1). I'm using the "msp430fr59xx_euscia0_uart_01" example program to test with. The output of the transceiver is hooked up to the serial port of my PC, running Windows 7. The next step is getting the PC to recognize the serial port, which is where I'm stuck. The PC doesn't notice when I plug in the cable from the PC serial port to the transceiver output. I went to Device Manager and scanned for hardware changes, at which point the PC did notice that something was attached to the serial port, and tried to install drivers, but failed. It's now showing a "PCI Serial Port" under Other Devices, but it's got the yellow warning triangle on it's icon, and it doesn't show up as a selectable port in RealTerm. I've looked around for drivers for this on the internet, but found nothing so far. Is that what I need? Am I missing a step? In the big picture here, I'm trying to get a program to send a chunk of data from the MSP to a PC, and I could use advice about how to format said data to make it usable (e.g. saved to a .csv) once it gets there. Is there a way other than UART to Serial that would make this easier?
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