[Coco] Serial to USB adapter Question

[Bruce W. Calkins]

This issue has been extensively addressed in the Ham Radio community.
<http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php>
Bruce W.


On 10/05/2018 11:07 PM, Mark D. Overholser wrote:
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> On 10/04/2018 08:33 PM, Stephen Fischer wrote:
>> I remember a discussion here that there are some Serial to USB 
>> adapters to avoid as they can be disabled because they have stolen 
>> firmware chips.
>>
>> Any one to avoid these days?
>>
>> SHF
>>
> 
> 
> I remember the Prolific Drivers, about 5 years ago, suddenly not working 
> with some adapters...   And a couple years ago, some Prolific Drivers 
> not working, and the Adapters having their Product IDentifiers ( PIDs ) 
> suddenly being changed to an unusable ID....
> 
> 
> If the adapter sells for less than $15.00 ( US Dollars ) on Amazon, I'll 
> bet money that they are Fakes...
> 
> 
> Where I work, we use to Bundle an adapter with the Prolific PL2300.. We 
> currently make a Product with the FTDI on it, and for all our 
> Development/Programming Systems that need a Serial Port or Four, we use 
> the ATEN UC232A, works great on Win XP to Win 10, and current Macs and 
> Linux, like Ubuntu 14.04 to current...
> 
> 
> MarkO
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