The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.

For years I have hauled around two console cable sets. ... Here is a picture of one of my typical USB cables. I use a Keyspan USA-19HS USB to serial adapter.

If your computer does not have such a serial port, you can purchase a USB-to-serial adapter for around $20. The cable modem’s TTL port will not usually have a connector, so you will most likely ...

i have two different usb-to-serial adapter, both of which are based on the pl2303 driver/chipset. i have tried both cables with both adapters and cannot get onto the console of the switch.

In this case a USB-TTL adapter based around the FTDI FT232R IC: the TTL-232R-3V3-AJ adapter with 12 Mbps USB on one end, and a 3 Mbps UART on the other end. [Konrad] has made the C-based code ...

The Raspberry Pi Zero is limited, or so everyone says, and everyone is trying to cram a USB hub and WiFi adapter on this tiny, tiny board. One thing a lot of people haven’t realized is that t… ...