It surprises me, although it shouldn't, the number of people who ask the same question that's been asked and answered numerous times and is in the group archives, but then it's easier to be lazy and ask it again than do your own research and look to see if someone in the past has had the same question answered.
On 05/04/2023 20:39 GMT Al Jones al@aljones.us wrote:
Nigel, et al, personally it gets to be insulting to me (and others, probably) when you all come back with "Get a real FTDI" chip. I've been around ham radio since I was a teen (more as a SWL) but when I bought my first cable it was, of course, a counterfeit chip and I needed to install the older Prolific driver ... I didn't find out anything about the chips and the drivers till Windows did an update and wiped out the driver loaded by the company software. I'd guess that most of the people who are asking "Why doesn't this work?" already have spent money on a cable and are only now finding that things aren't as straightforward as it should be ... if they'd bought the right cable in the fist place. It's a lot more pleasant experience to help them solve their problems rather than infer they didn't do their homework before they even knew there was a problem.
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From "Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF" nigel@ngunn.net
To "Dave B" g8kbvdave@googlemail.com; "Dave B via chirp_users" chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Date 4/5/2023 15:18:42 Subject Re: [chirp_users] Windows 11
You don't need to look else where. Buy direct from the FTDI website.
On 05/04/2023 19:26 GMT Dave B via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
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Buy a proper "Genuine" FTDI based cable. No more problems after that.
If your supplier/seller cannot guarantee a genuine FTDI based product, look elsewhere. (Or build the cable assembly yourself.)
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