Hence my desire for something 100% reliable because I hate troubleshooting multiple things at the same time. We use the serial consoles 2-3 times a year to fix problems. I've considered a concentrator of some sort in the past but I didn't have the cabling infrastruture to support it at the time and it's a little overkill.
If you are asked for the driver and you do not have it, you can try to download the latest driver from the hardware vendor’s Web site. However, sometimes, it will open the New Hardware Wizard which may ask for the driver. We've tried the dedicated old laptop but, because it's old, they have a habit of dying at inconvenient times.ĭoes anyone have a way of putting a USB port on a modern laptop that works? I don't care if it's a $100 5lb box with an external power supply as long as it works every time and I can still order the part 2 years from now as we get new staff. Windows may have the driver built-in, or may still have the driver files installed from the last time that you set up the device. And none of them have stable part numbers what I buy seems to be what came over in the container this week. Inside the package you'll find a driver CD with the notice that you need to install the software on the CD before you plug in your Keyspan adapter. I've been through a few USB -> serial adapters and they're all flaky and the best one still requires pawing around a *.tw web site for the driver. The back of the package shows the included USB cable, and also includes the claim that this USB to Serial adapter is the world's best. Even the servers who's management modules have a serial port don't have a serial port. But we're all out of things that have serial ports.
We still have lots of things that have serial interfaces on them, switches, mangement modules, etc.
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