Looking in device manager the driver was usb serial instead of cisco usb.
Cisco usb console cable driver windows 7 download.
Open the windows device manager navigate to the ports com lpt section and open the section so you can view the indivicual ports plug the cable into the pc and the cisco router and you ll see a new port appear typically com4 which is the default as setup by the cisco usb console driver.
The link is simply placed at the bottom of this post click on that link to start download automatically.
All that s needed now for connection to the console is a usb a to mini b cable and the cisco usb console windows driver.
Download the latest version free console usb driver directly from our site if you want.
What finally did the trick for me was to right click on the port in device manager and tell it to roll back drivers.
I noticed the driver says it s for win xp and win vista.
Reinstall the cisco usb console drive using setup x64 exe from the windows 64 folder which was extracted from file cisco usbconsole driver 3 1 zip.
Connect the blue cisco usb console cable.
It kept reverting back to the default windows driver on every boot.
Disconnect the blue cisco usb console cable.
It installs ok but when i try to use it with putty putty comes back saying it can t access the port.
I m going to show you how to download setup and test the driver on a windows 8 1 based pc right now.
Launch setup x64 exe file in windows 64 folder that was extracted from the file cisco usbconsole driver 3 1 zip.
The way to tell the installation of the cisco usb driver is good and the connection is good is as follows.
If you don t see it.
Please try again later.
I just purchased a usb to mini usb console cable to use with the 2960s switches we just bought.
It would install with no issues and work okay but the next boot it would not.
If you don t have the latter don t worry.
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Check that you see cisco usb to serial adapter.
Open device manager to observe the driver installation.
I work for a company that has multiple support contracts with cisco we spend an average of 5 million a year on new equipment and service contracts annually and we still have issues getting that same driver file for the usb cable that comes with the routers switches.
If you face any issues or this driver doesn t work with your windows os or the link is broken which we provided here then please don t forget to tell us through comments below in the comments section we.
Launch the device manager to observe the usb driver installation.
Check device manager under ciscousbconsolewindowsdriver.
3 1 loaded it on my win 7 64 bit laptop.