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.