Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As technology has advanced, the types of ports on computers have also changed for the better. However, that doesn't mean devices with older ...

i've got a belkin adapter, works fine on the ciscos i've used, as well as my soekris and my OBD2 scanner for my car. just shows up as a "USB COM port" in XP, gets a standard COM # and all terminal ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port ...

Make: LILIN Model code: PMH-RS485/USB Dimensions mm: 55 x 36 x 18 Weight g (Cam): 80 Voltage: 5 V DC Additional info: PMH-RS485/USB is a USB adapter featuring easy serial port expansion over USB port, ...

Keyspan today announced that it’s shipping Mac OS X drivers for its USB serial adapter line. The drivers support Keyspan’s Twin Serial Adapters, its PDA adapter and its High-Speed USB adapter for ...

The SeaLink SC adapters provide one or two serial ports to allow software configuration for RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 and eliminating the need to open the enclosure to change jumper settings or DIPP ...

There is a gotcha lurking in wait for hackers who look at a piece of equipment, see a port labeled “Serial / RS-232”, and start to get ideas. The issue is the fact that the older the equipment, the ...