Review on GearMo USB Serial Adapter - RS232 DB-9 920K with FTDI Chip, TX/RX LED - Compatible with Windows 7, 8, and 10 by Cori Nance

The reason I bought this item is because my old USB to serial adapter didn't work with the Freescale QSB I bought, even on Linux where the Adapter used to work with other devices. I have a breakout board that uses an FTDI chip and have never had a problem with it, so I figured an FTDI based USB to serial adapter would be just as reliable, and I was right. As soon as it arrived I plugged it into my Linux laptop and it was identified without installing any drivers, then plugged in my Freescale QSB, set up Minicom, then turned on the QSB and printed the console boot info. Now I can access U-Boot on my board. The OLD USB-to-serial adapter I mentioned above is one of those PL2303-based Chinese adapters, I mean based because they don't actually use the Prolific chip, more like a copy of it. In my country (Colombia) you can only get them and it gave me a lot of headache because the latest Proliant driver doesn't work with it on Windows and works on Linux most of the time but not with all devices.