USB to RS232 – USB Converter Cable
Posted by Notcot on Jun 27, 2010 in Peripherals & Accessories |
Product Description
NB. CONTRARY TO THE AMAZON LINK, THESE DO NOT WORK WITH GARMIN
- NB. CONTRARY TO THE AMAZON LINK, THESE DO NOT WORK WITH GARMIN
Bought whizzy new PC (Dell with Vista) – but oh dear, no RS232 port for my faithful old Garmin hand-held GPS. Bought this little cracker, sets up a treat and immediately appears as ‘COM 3′ in the device manager.
I guarantee you won’t tell the difference between this and a ‘real’ serial port, at the expense of using up another USB socket of course.
Great little product!
Rating: 5 / 5
I needed an RS232-USB converter cable to convert a Garmin GPS serial cable to work with a laptop running Vista. This item is a good price and delivery was within a couple of days as expected.
When I connected it up Windows did an online search for a driver and I had it working within minutes. All I had to do was change the port setting in the software I was using and I was connected to my GPS and able to transfer files between the laptop and my GPS. No problems.
Rating: 5 / 5
Bought this cable, and the little CD that came with it clearly assumed a greater level of knowledge than I possessed! I was lost and couldn’t install a driver for it. Then I found the link to the seller (Aquarius Computers) and an invitation to contact via a contact form. This was 2.30pm on a Saturday, and by 4pm same day I had a reply pointing me at a site to directly download the driver, which was straightforward to install. Everything working smoothly now.
If you have the same problem (I have XP and using the cable to run an external modem) Google “PL-2303 Software and Drivers” (include the double quotes) and choose the link ending ID=31. There, on the Prolific Technology Inc. site, you will find a file to download called wd_pl2303_v20019v2028.zip. Caters for Win98SE/ME and Win2K/XP/2003.
Rating: 5 / 5
Short review: I plugged the converter into a laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and set CuteCom to use /dev/ttyUSB0. Voila!
Longer review: This is made by NEWLink Products (I’m not allowed to post a URL, but it’s the top result in Google). It doesn’t seem to be exactly the same as the NLUSB-0039 described in their Web catalogue, but it’s close enough.
“lsusb -v” shows the chipset is a Prolific PL2303, but in fact it’s a PL2303X, since bMaxPacketSize0 is 64. (Google “prolific pl2303x linuxquestions” and see the answer at the bottom of the top result.) Nevertheless, Gutsy correctly initialises the device.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic – something that actually works with Windows Vista! Connected up my old Psion Series 5 with no problems, unlike everything else I’ve tried to get working on Microsoft’s latest operating system, which appears to have either not been tested at all, or purposely designed so that you have to buy all new hardware and software! Definitely deserves five stars.
Rating: 5 / 5