Serial - USB adapter/driver

[mickw]

Should each serial - USB adapter have it's own driver installed or will the adapters each use the same driver ?

I have installed Prolific driver for one adapter and want to use an additional adapter and have lost the second driver disk.

I'm assuming both use a prolific driver which I still have for the first adapter.
I don't want to f### things up if the drivers are adapter specific 

[The Thing]

Depends on the chipset. There's two main sorts I have come across, Prolific and the FTDI. Try the FTDI website. All my single serial adaptors use FTDI, my four connector usb lead is Prolific.

[mickw]

Thanks Dunc, If I'd bothered to check the Maplins website where I got it, I would have found the link to the Prolific driver