Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12998 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Max Value
• Model: MV42260
• Released on: 2007-07-17

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Customer Reviews

Works fine, but should come with drivers or better information
Bought this item for a Mac to save having to keep a spare PC lying around for connecting to serial consoles. Doesn't work out of the box and only comes with Windows drivers.

However, booting NetBSD or Linux within Parallels shows this is a bog-standard Prolific 2303 chipset, for which there is good support. Simply download the OSX driver from Prolific's website and it correctly shows up as /dev/tty.usbserial which you can then attach to with "screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600".

While it may not be possible for them to include the Prolific drivers on the bundled CD, they could at least provide this information for people who would not know how to find out what chipset is being used.

In the end though, it's still worth 4 stars as it's using a standard chipset so has full support across the board, and is reasonably priced.

Worked with Ubuntu out of the box
Opened the box, plugged it into my EEE PC running Ubuntu Hardy Heron, loaded GTKTerm, selected the USB serial port (/dev/ttyUSB0) and it worked. All in all, less than thirty seconds. Excellent.

Does the job from Psion to Mac (PowerPC)
Came with drivers that installed and worked perfectly. Allowed me to attach my Psion Series 5 and Revo to my Powerbook G4 without a hitch.