I also use Cartes Du Ceil and a USB to serial converter.
You will also need to download the ascom driver and I think the Unified Celestron drivers, this provides the interface between CdC and the scope. CdC talks to the Ascom driver and the driver tells the scope what to do.
You can download these from
http://ascom-standards.org/
When configuring the Ascom driver you set the telescope type to Nextstar 5i.
One trick is that when you plug in your USB to serial adaptor, go into device manager and check to see what serial port number it has configured itself for so you can set the correct port in the ascom configuration, if you use the same usb port each time you shouldn't need to change anything each time you use it.