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 Works GREAT with Vista 64 Bit & Windows 7 64 Bit. No need to look elsewhere! November 19, 2009
Method2Madness (Hampton Roads, VA)
Purchased this to replace an older iogear USB to serial adapter that refused to work with 64 bit Windows products. I had to keep a separate 32 bit Windows partition to use whenever I needed to utilize the serial adapter. Well I'm pleased to say this is no longer the case and I was able to free up some needed space on my laptop! This works great with both Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. I'm a Nortel Field Engineer and use this to communicate with various Nortel/Bay Networks routers and switches without trouble (Yes, it works with Cisco products as well). Works like a charm paired with TeraTerm and/or plain ole' HyperTerminal.
There's no difficult installation either, just run the setup on the included micro-cd and you're up and working in no time!
Kudos to TRENDnet for making such a great product at a great price!
 usb to serial converter November 11, 2009
kathy (new york)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The major issue is it grabs a different com port each time you use it
Lynx6 AL5B robot arm now works beautifully in Ubuntu (Karmic RC) Matlab 2009b October 28, 2009
N. Winocur (USA)
We're using Lynx6 AL5B robot arms for class, controlled using Matlab.
The Karmic RC of Ubuntu I'm using supports this adapter very well; I plugged it in and by the time I could type "sudo chmod a+wrx /dev/tty" and press the tab button, ttyUSB0 already existed and was ready to use (so yes, I ran the command "sudo chmod a+wrx /dev/ttyUSB0" to give the "other" group read/write access.)
From there it was just a matter of changing the baud to match the jumpers on the robot arm's controller (sudo stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 115200), then using "man stty" to read up on the rest of the possible flags and change them until "sudo stty -a -F /dev/ttyUSB0" would give an output including the following: "-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel -iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke"
(It's possible it'll work even if not all the flags match the above exactly; I just know that this is how I have mine set.)
I have to thank my professor for pointing out the stty command's usefulness, and I won't post any matlab code; compared to him, I crafted almost none of it. But the point is that this thing works, and didn't require any crazy linux know-how or compiling anything.
I'm assuming it would work just as well in Windows or Mac.
 Drivers cause blue screen on Windows 7 64-bit October 9, 2009
K. Graefensteiner (Mission Viejo, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this converter to connect my laptop that runs Windows 7 64-bit with my Lynxmotion SSC-32 controller board. The driver that shipped with the device is unfortunately faulty and causes BSODs (Blue Screen Of Death). I debugged the memory dumps and was able to pinpoint the cause. It is definitively the converter driver.
I recommend not to use it for Windows 7 until a decent driver becomes available.
Works great, is well supported October 7, 2009
Kevin Septor (Seattle, WA USA)
Mahmoud Qudsi's review pretty much nails it, this thing works perfectly on all the major platforms. On my Mac there it is as /dev/cu.usbserial, on Linux /dev/ttyUSB0, and on Windows XP... well, whatever. It's the perfect solution to your legacy serial device pains (in my case the UNIDEN BC-246T Compact Hand Held Scanner).
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