[Coco] DW4/Prolific USB/Xubuntu 13.10 Fail

[Bruce W. Calkins]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tormod Volden"

> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:
>> I have one of these USB/Serial thingies.  It's a Prolific -- cheap and
>> sucky, but Aaron says they work for him, right?  (I also want to get it
>
> I have tested many USB-serial adapters and some of them do suck. For
> my Dragon adapters I initially tried to use PL2303 (Profilic), but
> gave up on them and now consistently use CP2102 (Silicon Laboratories)
> ones instead which all seem to work very reliable. However I have had
> excellent experience with some PL2303 adapters at work (running 24/7
> for years on Linux machines), so these seem to be a mixed bag. I think
> I have read something about pirated PL2303 clones and Profilic giving
> up on the PL2303 series because of the bad reputation they
> (undeservedly) got.
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FWIW: the amatuer radio community has found issues with the Prolific clone 
USB/Serial adapters.  For Windows you need to roll back the driver. 
Generally there are fewer problems with Linux systems.
Bruce W.