They can vary in terms of supported baud rates, cable types ... installing the manufacturer-provided drivers. Installing the drivers for the USB to serial adapters is fairly straightforward.

You will see the Prolific USB-to-Serial driver in your Device Manager. As explained earlier in this article, a Prolific USB-to-Serial adapter cable is used to connect the devices with a serial ...

I use a SIIG USB to Serial cable. It uses an FTDI chipset. The driver's up on Windows Update, so it's just plug in, get driver, and go. Get an FTDI based adapter. They have good virtual COM port ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for FTDI USB Serial Converter Drivers. This is a driver pack that allows USB ports to be used to connect to Serial bus devices with a USB - Serial adapter cable.

[Jethomson] worked out a way to use a Nokia USB cable at a USB to Serial cable. He was able to pick up one of these cables for less than $3 delivered. A little probing worked out which conductors ...

This came to us via hardware hacking site Hack A Day. The driver in question is for a line of USB-to-serial chips designed by Scottish firm FTDI. FTDI's chips are incredibly popular in this space ...

Connecting two computers with a specific type of Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable allows you to transfer files or other data directly from one machine to another. Transfer speeds are limited to ...

It’s a simple chip, converting USB to a serial port, but very useful and probably ... if plugged into a machine running the newest FTDI driver; the latest driver bricks the fake chips ...