What is a USB to serial adapter used for & do you need a driver for one?

Learn what a USB to Serial adapter is used for, when you might need one, and whether installing a driver is required for it ...
Ars Technica

USB -> Serial converter that actually works

We still have lots of things that have serial interfaces on them, switches, mangement modules, etc. But we're all out of things that have serial ports. Even the servers who's management modules have a ...
Hosted on MSN

Here's What A Computer's Serial Port Was For (And Where It's Still Necessary)

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...
Hackaday

Break Me Off A Piece Of That Open Source Serial Adapter

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 this one from ...
Ars Technica

HotSync a m105 Palm from a Serial craddle to a USB port, via adapter

I have a Palm, and I use it with a laptop that has no serial port. Now, I use the IR port to sync the data, but it is giving me all sorts of headaches lately.<br>The craddle I have only has a serial ...
Circuit Digest

FalCAN Probe Simplifying CAN Bus, UART, and RS-485 Debugging for Engineers

The FalCAN Probe is an open-source communication and debugging tool created by Anders B. Nielsen to simplify testing in ...
Network World

Cisco USB Console Ports

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...