You may be able to stop windows 7 from updating the driver, as noted here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500967
I dont know for sure as I havent tried it.
________________________________ From: Niklas Johnson niklas@ruggedradios.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Summer Project : transcoding CHIRP
Its wrong only if you have a 'counterfeit' Prolific chip, the most recent driver revisions that Prolific themselves provided to Microsoft detects and disables the non-genuine variants. Prolific is protecting their market share and IP, and Microsoft was providing a certified manufacturer supplied driver.
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Pete Mackie pete@seaquest.com wrote:
Except starting with Mac OS X Mavericks Apple is providing an O/S built in USB to serial driver. I am using the Apple provided USB to serial driver with CHIRP with zero problems.
Windows has provides an O/S built in USB serial driver. The dilemma is the stupid Microsoft thinks they should automatically provide the latest O/S built in USB serial driver. And that is absolutely the wrong thing to do if you are using a Prolific USB / serial cable.
Pete
On May 20, 2014, at 8:17 AM, Andrew ziltro@ziltro.com wrote:
The drivers for certain USB/serial adapter cables will still be required, and they seem to be the main thing causing problems on Windows and Mac OS.
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