Hello everyone. I'm trying to access a router cli by connecting it to my personal laptop, and it's running windows 11. I downloaded and installed the necessary driver which apparently supports the latest version of win11, but when i connect the port and enter device manager it tells me the driver doesn't support win11. I tried downloading from other websites and uninstalled/reinstalled the driver but to no avail. I'm working in a lab with a couple others and all their devices accessed the router without much issues, theyre all running win10 or earlier so the issue is almost certainly inherit to win11.

If anyone is familiar with this problem and has a solution it would be much appreciated.

Has anyone managed to get a Ugreen USB to DB9 RS232 working on Windows 11? I've not had any luck by downloading PL203 drivers and there is no driver to rollback as it is a fresh install of Win 11, not an upgrade from Win 10 (suggestions found from research on the internet).

Alternatively, has anyone got recommendations for a RS232 DB9 adapter that works on Windows 11?

For the benefit of the moderator Nazis in r/networking that decided to remove my thread, using a serial cable to manage enterprise network gear is rather an important topic in my opinion, but fuck you guys.

Need some recommendations from fellow Network Engineers who have already dealt with this. Our org recently updated to Windows 11 and it killed our ability to use our USB to Serial adapters because of Windows core isolation/memory integrity settings. Our domain admins have given up trying to disable memory integrity for us so now it's on me to figure out a viable alternative for our console connections, and I really don't feel like rolling the dice on random purchases.

Anyone have a recommendation for a USB-to-Serial adapter that will work when Windows 11 Core Isolation security settings are all turned on? It really needs to be a legit serial connection on the adapter too because most of our network infrastructure doesn't have native USB console ports and also we are doing Serial over Ethernet in a few places and those require native serial on both sides.

Thanks in advance :)

I use an USB/RS-485 converter with an FTDI chipset daily, and it but I haven't done a 232 link in a decade. I can't even find my USB/232 converter.

An Amazon offer for a device claiming its an FTDI chipset tells me to go to the FTDI website and download the driver and install it. That process makes me wonder whether the device has a genuine FTDI chipset, because I never recall having to install a driver for a converter with an FTDI chipset, The FTDI converters I'd used in the past (and now) have always "self-installed by finding its driver in the Windows driver set and coming up Device Manager as active and enabled.

Have things changed over a decade where USB/232 converters with FTDI chipsets no longer self-install?

What's your experience with 232or 485 converters with FTDI chipsets?