Oh, neat.

[mouthuvmine]

So, wanting to try using a tablet, and being broke, I found one on Craigslist. The price was so right, so when the fellow informed me (at the very moment we were about to trade money for item) that it used a serial connection, I decided to bite the bullet and get a converter, which had worked for him, as he demonstrated. Now I've just spent about 3 hours fighting this beast, and I just can't get the drivers working together. It's a serial Intuos 2, and I have Windows 7 64bit installed...any thoughts?

I feel like there's a possibility the my OS being 64 bit has something to do with it, but my computer savvy has it's limits.

Also, I have a good serial / USB cable. It's got the neat little box on it that the cheapy ones don't.

Thanks in advance. My Win7 is a legit copy, so I'm not too keen on having to switch to something else over this.

[Anian]

Hmm, I guess it's easy to be a general after the battle, but just by googling for a second or so and these two results came up:
http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2=2444
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php74897
Both basically saying you can try some of the solutions, but, sorry to say, it seems like there's a 90% chance you're screwed. The solutions for win7 were found but only for the 32bit version. There are some tries with modification of registries...s
Try this: http://www.anotherblogger.com/2007/03/31/vista-hacks-making-my-wacom-serial-tablet-work/

In any case, what seems most probably to work is to trick drivers and not let them install right away but do it manually, so you can make the pc think it's a usb and not a serial connection.

[mouthuvmine]

Thanks. I did, of course, Google the problem, and saw some of that, which lead me to my theory about Win7 64 bit being the problem. I guess I'm just hoping the right person will read this and happen to have that amazing, forehead-smack-causing answer.