I recently made a hex file burner programmer to work with Atmel AVR chips which can be connected to PC's serial port and the file can be downloaded to flash memory using PONY PROG software. But eventually I found that my serial port connector is not able to connect to to USB TO SERIAL converter as my laptop does not have serial port like PC. The Pony prog software is not able to communicate. It came to my knowledge that it works with only PC's real serial port not with the USB converter. Operating system( windows xp 32 bit)
What is the problem in this and do experts in the software/firmware industry have solution for this flaw? Can we modify some of the .dll's files or any sort of library files in order to overcome this? Do I need to change my serial port's logic levels? what's the best solution in this regard??? help please