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 serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s. Although RS232 is the most widely used, these adapters can also feature RS485 or RS422 serial interfaces.

Prolific PL2303 USB-to-Serial driver is not working on Windows 11. ... restart your computer and connect your computer with the device with a serial port via the Prolific USB-to-Serial adapter cable.

The USB serial core calls the individual port_probe() function in the USB serial driver for the port, if present, and then registers the port with the tty layer, completing the initialization process.

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

[Johan von Konow] found that he was using an FTDI USB-to-Serial chip in a lot of his projects and wanted to have an easy prototyping component on hand to facilitate this. What he came up with is th… ...

Plug the USB-to-serial adapter into an open USB port on your computer. Insert your adapter's driver CD when you see a "Found New Hardware Wizard" window appear on your screen.

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.

We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as as cleverly designed as ...