If you don t have the latter don t worry.
Cisco usb console cable driver windows 7 download.
First disconnect the blue cisco usb console cable.
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.
Check device manager under ciscousbconsolewindowsdriver.
The link is simply placed at the bottom of this post click on that link to start download automatically.
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I m going to show you how to download setup and test the driver on a windows 8 1 based pc right now.
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What finally did the trick for me was to right click on the port in device manager and tell it to roll back drivers.
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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.
It would install with no issues and work okay but the next boot it would not.
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.
Open device manager to observe the driver installation.
Looking in device manager the driver was usb serial instead of cisco usb.
The way to tell the installation of the cisco usb driver is good and the connection is good is as follows.
I noticed the driver says it s for win xp and win vista.
Connect the blue cisco usb console cable.
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.
Launch the device manager to observe the usb driver installation.
I just purchased a usb to mini usb console cable to use with the 2960s switches we just bought.
3 1 loaded it on my win 7 64 bit laptop.
It kept reverting back to the default windows driver on every boot.
Disconnect the blue cisco usb console cable.
Launch setup x64 exe file in windows 64 folder that was extracted from the file cisco usbconsole driver 3 1 zip.
Check that you see cisco usb to serial adapter.