First the good thing – I got a new laptop recently.. – and the bad thing – no serial port. Since i from time to time need to configure firewalls im in a big need of that.
anyway – a quick search oh my resellers website told me that i could buy one of these smart “Belkin…..” usb-to-serial adapters. which was Windows 7 certified (i just read it as – of course it works with windows 7 – go buy it! )
The next day i got it with mail – its actually better quality than expected, and it didnt took me long to hook it up. Now the next thing i expected,was for windows 7 to just search for a driver and install it like it did with most of my other hardware. instead it told me to *** off – and go find a driver myselfe.
to make a long story short – go google “Belkin F5U103vea” Vista for yourselfe, and you will quickly find out that – its either impossible to find, or your download link ends with …/super-driver-downloader-professional2010.exe.
It seems like those bastards from Belkin didnt bother to host a driver that works with their product – or link to one. It turns out (like alot of other hardware) that its rebranded.
its from a company called Prolific Technology inc. And its original name is “PL-2303 USB to Serial Bridge”
you can find it on this website or directly link
so to summarize this post….. fuck you belkin for wasting my time which i could have spent on youporn instead.
#1 by Anderw on November 18, 2009 - 4:42 pm
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Thank you for posting this. I have several people trying to use a USB to Serial cable from belkin and it’s been a hassle trying to get it to work in vista and win7.
You, sir, as they say, are the man!
#2 by admin on November 18, 2009 - 5:02 pm
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Thank you – its nice to know that im not the only one being troubled with the product.
#3 by Lee on December 4, 2009 - 1:02 pm
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Thank you very much for this useful post.
It helped me out big time.
I’ve just bought a new laptop (no serial port) I also bought the Belkin F5U103vea USB to Serial.
The laptop comes with Vista installed and I couldn’t get the Belkin to work with the supplied driver disc.
I Installed the driver from the Prolific website and now my Belkin F5U103vea is working with Vista.
Thank you
#4 by Stefan on December 17, 2009 - 7:54 am
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Thank you for this post either.
Belkin support on their web site is nasty!
#5 by Geoff on January 22, 2010 - 4:33 pm
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After weeks of frustration by Roland MDX15 milling machine is working perfectly with the Belkin, shame that driver didn’t come with the device.