1. Open Device Manager 2. Remove Old Com ports and USB devices: Proceed to step 2 of this tutorial http://www.digi.com/support/kbase/kbaseresultdetl?id=3308. 3. When that is done, still in Device manager, navigate to your problem USB cable (it should have a yellow exclamation mark on it) 4. Remove it, and then reinstall the driver 5. If that driver will still not work then: 6. Right click on it, and choose *update driver*. 7. Click *Browse my Computer...* 8. Click *Let me pick from a list...* 9. A list of all of the drivers should show. Choose the oldest Prolific driver on the list. I chose version 3.2.0 from 2007 10. Install it, and you're done!
If you are using PuTTy, note that when you connect, the COM port may not work as expected. What you should do, if you need to, is go into the Serial options in the main PuTTy window, and turn off flow control.
Everything should work right now[?].
Regards, John Kellas 403-762-2333
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tom,
I don't have Windows 8.1 here so I can test it out myself. Are you not able to choose the older compatible driver in the 8.1 Device Manager like is shows in step 11?
Jim KC9HI
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Tom Maynard tom.wz9u@gmail.com wrote:
On 06-Dec-14 09:15, Shon Edwards wrote:
This is a very good explanation and should work fine. I usually just use the "official" cables myself and have no problem, so this is another
option
in case things don't pan out.
I just went through this process for the first time myself, just last
night.
Both my radio and my programming cable came from Banggood (China).
After a bit of struggling I got my systems communication smoothly. My configuration:
Laptop: Windows 8.1 Radio Baofeng UV-82
I did try using the USB cable driver that came with Windows and it did
not
work. I downloaded the drivers from the Miklor site and they also did not work. As a last resort I used the drivers from the mini-disc supplied
with
my cable. Again: No luck at all.
Then I realized that Windows was automatically updating the USB cable
driver
the instant I plugged in the cable.
I discovered this by drilling down deep within Device Manager and
looking at
the Date/Version of the installed driver. As soon as the cable was
inserted
(with or without radio connected), Windows upgraded the driver instantly (Fail).
The solution for me — and YMMV, of course — was to re-enter Device
Manager
and to click on the “Roll Back Driver” button, after assuring the O/S
that
this was in fact my intention the driver reverted to the one that I had installed. Immediately thereafter everything was golden and CHIRP worked perfectly.
I confess that it took me close to an hour to realize, diagnose, and
correct
the problem but I got mine working.
Thereafter I went back to the CHIRP Wiki page with the hope of being
able to
edit in my Windows 8 approach (since Win8 isn’t specifically mentioned there). Alas, although it is a Wiki page, I found no way to edit it — despite having registered/authenticated.
Instead, I post this here, hoping it will help someone. I can provide
more
detailed info, even a step-by-step procedure, if someone with Write authority on the Wiki would publish it there.
Tom Maynard WZ9U
P.S. I am actually using the driver that came with my cable on the mini-disc. I'm sure the download from Miklor would also work, but once I had a working solution I opted not to experiment further. (If it ain't broke, right?)
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