The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.

The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.

This web page contains information about the Add or Remove Programs control panel entry - FTDI USB Serial Converter Drivers. More information can be found by visiting this search result.

I personally use an FTDI based USB Serial adapter, have for years, and it works every time. I picked mine up off eBay and it's an HP adapter but the reference FTDI driver works fine.

I require the use of a serial port for work, but my laptop didn't come with one.<BR><BR>I got an adapter from work, a Keyspan USA-19HS, but there are currently no drivers for it - none for any ...

Cheap USB/RS-232/UART cables or breakout dongles are really cheap these days, so are USB hubs if you need multiple serial ports. But without isolation. Report comment ...

[Avishay] has a very, very cool solution to this problem: put a display on a USB to serial converter to tell the user what COM port the OS labeled it as. The prototype runs on a PIC 18F2553 dev board.

In-line adapter connects older RS-232 serial devices to PCs with USB ports. In-line adapter connects older RS-232 serial devices to PCs with USB ... Apple OS-8/9/X and Linux drivers are available.

If the specified USB serial driver has an open() function, it is called with struct usb_serial_port for the specific port being passed to it. The USB serial driver then can do any hardware-specific ...