2/22/2023 0 Comments Best usb serial adapter windows 10![]() ![]() and even then, they could be getting fooled about what product they are buying&reselling. ![]() So at this point, it's less about what chip and more about what vendor you can trust. and I believe to the extent that recently the ftdi drivers are now also becoming deliberately broken. Then, now that ftdi became so popular, people starting cloning the heck out of it as well. (again, didn't affect linux - unless you went out of your way to install their own driver instead of just using the working built-in one linux already has.) Then, recently, prolific started making drivers which, when it detected fake/clone chips, would not only not-work, but went as far as temporarily (permanently?) wipe out some super-low-level stuff in the usb eeprom side of things. and no one was making bad clones of ftdi. so for all that time, lots of people already switched to ftdi based devices, because it was also inexpensive, didn't have broken drivers, worked great even in linux without any special binary blobs, etc. The above is all years and years old, if not older. (although this mainly only affected windows) Then prolific started making drivers which would only work with a real prolific chip, at least insofar as they could identify fakes using software. then a lot of clones and copies started appearing and mostly you couldn't tell the difference, although some didn't behave quite as well as the real thing. it even worked great in linux out of the box, no special driver installation needed. boring history lesson:įor the longest time, prolific was the inexpensive decent one and everyone was happy. you can't always depend on what the vendor says/claims the chip is. ![]() ![]() This has actually become quite a problem. ![]()
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