worked for me as well. Cheap ca-42 cable ($1,80) from ebay. Pinouts are marked with numbers on the PCB that (seem to) match the prolific 2303 data sheet. "Seem to", because I could not get auto-reset working, even though RTS/DTR and so on should be available, but as I don't have a scope I cannot see what is going on. I used (sanguino) TXD ->R200-> RXD (2303) ->R220->GND to get TXDby icsmoke - Controllers