I've got mine working under Windows 7. You must use the drivers from 409Shop.com. On Nov 9, 2011 6:50 PM, "Gerrit Polder" gerrit.polder@solcon.nl wrote:
Dan,
here is some additional information for the programming cable guide.
For the Baofeng UV-3R is a USB cable available with a prolific chip. Unfortunately the latest driver from prolific does not work with this cable. You have to use a weird old driver used for GPS equipment in the past (PL2303_Prolific_GPS_AllInOne_1013.exe). It does not work with Mac OS X, don't know about Linux.
for this reason I replaced the interface with a SparkFun FTDI Breakout board (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9716). This one works like a charm. Furthermore I also can program my BF-U3 using Windows 7. The old cable could only be used with Windows XP.
I removed the cable from the prolific board and soldered it to pin headers which fit in the header connecter of the SparkFun board. For what its worth: black to ground, green to tx, red to rx.
kindly, Gerrit.
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