Check that you see cisco usb to serial adapter.
Cisco usb console cable driver windows 7 download.
Launch the device manager to observe the usb driver installation.
Check device manager under ciscousbconsolewindowsdriver.
If you don t have the latter don t worry.
It kept reverting back to the default windows driver on every boot.
First disconnect the blue cisco usb console cable.
Disconnect the blue cisco usb console cable.
The link is simply placed at the bottom of this post click on that link to start download automatically.
It installs ok but when i try to use it with putty putty comes back saying it can t access the port.
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The way to tell the installation of the cisco usb driver is good and the connection is good is as follows.
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.
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.
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I noticed the driver says it s for win xp and win vista.
Looking in device manager the driver was usb serial instead of cisco usb.
I just purchased a usb to mini usb console cable to use with the 2960s switches we just bought.
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.
Connect the blue cisco usb console cable.
3 1 loaded it on my win 7 64 bit laptop.
I m going to show you how to download setup and test the driver on a windows 8 1 based pc right now.
Open device manager to observe the driver installation.
Launch setup x64 exe file in windows 64 folder that was extracted from the file cisco usbconsole driver 3 1 zip.
What finally did the trick for me was to right click on the port in device manager and tell it to roll back drivers.