It was then that I found the MCT U232-P9 DB-9 Serial Adapter High Speed 230K USB SERIAL RS-232. Magic Control Technologies U232-P9 Adaptor Eventually I thought hmm, lets just see if we can find another USB232 converter that used a Philips chip.
Hence I did a lot of searching for that particular chip in google, all with no luck. Sadly it wasn’t it was instead a Philips P87C52X2BA microcontroller seemed to be used. I had previously found a website where someone had pulled the adaptor apart to determine if the chipset was an FTDI chipset. But sadly nothing about the Belkin F5U409 adaptor. Then there were a few posts indicating to try various different drivers, most seem to relate to either the Prolific or FTDI chip/chipset which apparently exists on other models of the Belkin adaptors (F5U109?) and with other USB/RS232 converters and hence works with some other drivers. Lots of posts indicating it’s not supported, even an official microsoft page indicating it’s not supported under Microsoft Windows 7. There was lots of webpages/forum posts about how people failed. Hence I began searching to see if anyone had got the device working. In most cases, it would simply be a recompilation of the existing driver. It was down to Belkin not wanting to spend the time or money to update the driver. What a rip off? Not only doesn’t Belkin support their old hardware they try and get me to buy their new hardware!īeing a computer system administrator and programmer by trade, I knew there would be no physical reason the device would not work under a 64 bit operating system. We do however have a similar adapter which is compatible with Vista 64 bit, you can use part F5U257 (USB-to-Serial Adapter).” It is compatible with Vista 32 bit computers. No, this product is not compatible with vista 64 bit. “ Is the F5U409 USB PDA Adapter compatible with vista 64 bit? Here’s the details from their knowledge base page (can’t link it due to thier website design): It wasn’t until I came to my trusty Belkin USB to Serial (RS232) converter, aka PDA adapter that I encountered a problem.Īfter visiting Belkin‘s website and looking up the driver page for the convertor, I discovered that Belkin didn’t support both Vista 64bit and Windows 7 64 bit. After a fresh install of Windows 7, I began the process of installing drivers for the hardware I had. Having a laptop capible of 64 bit I decided to upgrade to Window 7 64 bit. (Note: Mac Users may want to skip to the bottom)Īfter a number of years my old Windows Vista 32 bit installation was a little worse for ware.
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