Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 133, Issue 8
"At the moment"...
I have some sympathy with Prolific, and FTDI who also have had their chip's faked. I personally have seen one chip marked up as FTDI, but appeared to Windows as a Prolific chip! The seller did the right thing, at their expense. I Feel sorry for them too.
It is I suspect, only a matter of time, before one Linux distro or other also detects and blocks the use of such "fake" chips. After that, all the others will probably do so too.
I also have sympathy for people who bought a "product" unknowingly with a fake chip in it. "The Product" manufacturer should make things good, but that rarely if ever happens.
Too many people loose out to the counterfeiters in these cases.
73.
Dave G8KBV.
On 11/01/2020 20:00, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
Score another point for Linux - it does not care if the chip in your cable is a fake Prolific, it just works anyway! There is also a driver available for Mac that can handle the fake Prolific chips. It seems only Windows has this problem.
It's not the "Linux distro" thaty detects the chip and provides the device driver. Device drivers are in the kernal and all Linux distros get their kernal from the same place. All kernals for a current distro will be the latest version of the one kernal available. If the kernal changes to detect fake chips then all future distros will be impacted.
On 11 January 2020 at 19:21 Dave B via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
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It is I suspect, only a matter of time, before one Linux distro or other also detects and blocks the use of such "fake" chips. After that, all the others will probably do so too.
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Yes indeed.
I was keeping it as non-techincal as I could, considering the apparent ability of some on this list.
But some distributions do alter the kernel in subtle ways to suit their own needs re device drivers. The most significant would be National Instruments RTOS, that is a very modified/augmented version of RHEL. "Scientific Linux" is(was) another. But that is totally out of context here.
73.
Dave 'KBV.
On 12/01/2020 02:33, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
It's not the "Linux distro" thaty detects the chip and provides the device driver. Device drivers are in the kernal and all Linux distros get their kernal from the same place. All kernals for a current distro will be the latest version of the one kernal available. If the kernal changes to detect fake chips then all future distros will be impacted.
On 11 January 2020 at 19:21 Dave B via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
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It is I suspect, only a matter of time, before one Linux distro or other also detects and blocks the use of such "fake" chips. After that, all the others will probably do so too.
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