{"id":835,"date":"2010-12-10T23:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2013-03-25T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T23:55:06","slug":"how-to-use-a-belkin-f5u409f5u409-cu-usb-to-pda-serial-converter-in-visawindows-7-64bit-mac-osx-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/posts\/how-to-use-a-belkin-f5u409f5u409-cu-usb-to-pda-serial-converter-in-visawindows-7-64bit-mac-osx-10","title":{"rendered":"Solution: Belkin F5U409 USB to Serial Converter in 64bit Windows 7\/Vista\/Mac OSX 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\""The\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Note: Mac Users may want to skip to the bottom)<\/em><\/p>\n

After a number of years my old Windows Vista 32 bit installation was a little worse for ware. Having a laptop capible of 64 bit I decided to upgrade to Window 7 64 bit. After a fresh install of Windows 7, I began the process of installing drivers for the hardware I had. It wasn’t until I came to my trusty Belkin USB to Serial (RS232) converter, aka PDA adapter that I encountered a problem.<\/p>\n

After visiting Belkin<\/a>‘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.\u00a0 Here’s the details from their knowledge base page (can’t link it due to thier website design):<\/p>\n

“Is the F5U409 USB PDA Adapter compatible with vista 64 bit?<\/strong>
No, this product is not compatible with vista 64 bit. It is compatible with Vista 32 bit computers. We do however have a similar adapter which is compatible with Vista 64 bit, you can use part F5U257 (USB-to-Serial Adapter).”<\/em><\/p>\n

What a rip off? Not only doesn’t Belkin support their old hardware they try and get me to buy their new hardware!<\/p>\n

Being 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. It was down to Belkin not wanting to spend the time or money to update the driver. In most cases, it would simply be a recompilation of the existing driver.<\/p>\n

Hence I began searching to see if anyone had got the device working. There was lots of webpages\/forum posts about how people failed. Lots of posts indicating it’s not supported, even an official microsoft page<\/a> indicating it’s not supported under Microsoft Windows 7. 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. But sadly nothing about the Belkin F5U409 adaptor.<\/p>\n

Hence I figured enough is enough. I had previously found a website<\/a> where someone had pulled the adaptor apart to determine if the chipset was an FTDI chipset. Sadly it wasn’t it was instead a Philips P87C52X2BA\u00a0 microcontroller seemed to be used. Hence I did a lot of searching for that particular chip in google<\/a>, all with no luck. Eventually I thought hmm, lets just see if we can find another USB232 converter that used a Philips chip.<\/p>\n

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Magic Control Technologies U232-P9 Adaptor<\/p><\/div>\n

It was then that I found the MCT U232-P9 DB-9 Serial Adapter High Speed 230K USB SERIAL RS-232<\/span><\/a>. This device used the “P87C52 – 80C51 8-bit microcontroller and PDIUSBD12 made by NXP Semiconductors founded by Philips.” <\/span>It was perfect the chip matched. I hence spent quite a while working out who MCT were. It turns out that MCT stands for Magic Control Technologies. On the MCT website, on their driver page<\/a> they had drivers for their USB\/Serial convertor and they support Visa, Windows 7, 32bit & 64bit. So I downloaded the driver U232-P9 Driver<\/a>.(Click Here for a Local Mirror<\/a> incase MCT remove it)<\/p>\n

I then crossed my fingers and installed it. After a quick reboot I plugged in my Belking F5U409 adaptor and it was detected! A quick check. It worked!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So to Belkin who wanted to force me to buy yet another product – support your products!<\/p>\n

As a bit of an ironic twist, I later began cleaning up the original installed Belkin driver (I had tried the Vista 32bit version with no success). It was then that I discovered that Belkin don’t even write their own drivers but use Magic Control Technologies drivers!\u00a0 (You can find this by right clicking on the u2sxp.sys file that Belkin installs to C:\\Program Files(x86)\\Belkin\\F5U409\\Driver\\u2sxp.sys<\/span> and clicking the details tab). So not only are they not updating the drivers, they didn’t write them in the first place!<\/p>\n

Finally, if your a Mac OSX 10 user you might also want to check the Magic Control Technologies driver page <\/a>as drivers exist for you as well – shame on you Belkin.
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