[Fwd: [W4OVH] Bargain priced, sub-mini tri band radios]

[Rob Seastrom]

Heh, I must have totally missed that.  Last I heard was about the PL2303 drivers that only would only talk to gen-u-ine PL2303s.

Using the FOSS driver (or Linux) solved the problem since neither cared.

-r


> On Aug 22, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Mark Whittington <markwhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> FTDI pirating has been a problem for a while.  It was bad enough that they wrote a driver update (published through MS) that bricked the knock-offs.  Pissed off a LOT of people and got their driver pulled by MS.
> 
> https://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/
> 
> https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/
> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 20, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI <3t3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Some even have pirated FTDI clone chips and may not work at all, so be aware.
> 
> heh, pirated FTDI clones now?  Several years ago the big problem was pirated PL2303 knock-offs.
> 
> Gotta hand it to the pirates for their taste in upping their game!
> 
> -r
> 
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