[chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 71, Issue 21

[Dennis Smith]

Microsoft has nothing to gain from doing what you suggest. What you
refer to incorrectly relates to drivers provided by FTDI of recent,
and from Prolific last year as a method to combat counterfeit chips as
they call it. Prolific have made there drivers capable of identifying
the illicit IC's and will not allow them to run on those PC's. FTDI
can also identify the IC's that work equally as well as their own but
are also identifying themselves as FTDI's when they are not so a few
months back FTDI updated their drivers to corrupt the IC and
effectively bricking them. The PR following this move caused FTDI to
revoke those drivers and now they don't brick any more, they just
refuse to work instead. The drivers provided by Windows update are
uploaded by FTDI or Prolific or whatever company has paid to have a
VID and PID number attached to their chips, and not usually provided
by Microsoft directly. Microsoft was not happy with the actions of
FTDI because of the bad PR and the idea that M$ allowed rogue drivers
to damage hardware on it's network.

Whilst you are right, the best drivers in this instance is not the
Windows update drivers, the reason isn't the one you gave. There is a
small possibility the bricking drivers are floating the internet and
may be installed in error and these can deliberately damage your
cable, but this is a 0.01% chance because no one would want these
drivers to float about in the wild if they could help it.

If you do install newer drivers than you want, or possibly corrupted
drivers then you should go to hardware manager and uninstall and
delete the newer ones before forcing the older ones to run.

Dennis Smith
M1DLG

On 30 November 2014 at 00:01, Bob Fk <vk2byf at gmail.com> wrote:
> RE: IS IT MY CABLE OR MY TVR?
>
> Most Problems with Chirp are a problem with the USB cable driver.
> Use the driver which came with the cable.
> Do NOT allow Windows to update the USB driver when you plug in the
> USB cable and Windows loads the USB driver.
>
> This is an attempt by Microsoft to stop people using cloned USB cables.
>
> 73 Bob VK2BYF
>
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>>    1. chirp linux and cable to programm (y_61 at libero.it)
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>> From: "y_61 at libero.it" <y_61 at libero.it>
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>> Cc:
>> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:32:32 +0100 (CET)
>> Subject: [chirp_users] chirp linux and cable to programm
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> my cable to programm baofeng uv-5R not work or is fault my rtx uv-5r ?
>>
>> in how mode i test is faut the rtx or the cable ????
>>
>>
>>
>> i create the CHIRP  cd-live on usb boot pen.... but if i download to rtx
>> it say ERROR no 2.... what is ?
>>
>> in how mode i TEST the cable is not dead ???
>>
>>
>> best 73
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> i try to connect  th cable via  CHIRP CD LIVE  (linux ?)  and I think the
>> cable is recognized…
>>
>>
>>
>> but I not very shure it is effectly recognized …there isn’t a TEST  to
>> know this ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I open CHIRP  and select “downolad”  is  say this :
>>
>>
>>
>> AN ERROR HS OCCURRED   and :
>>
>>
>>
>> Could open  Port/dev/ttyUSB0    [ ERRORno2 ]
>>
>>
>>
>> No  file or directory /dev/ttyusb0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> …..is correct  that use this  TTYUSB0  ? the others ports is not  called
>> “usb” ….
>>
>>
>>
>> And  what is this ERROR no 2  ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Is  FAULT and dead  my usb cable or my  rtx UV-5R ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks very muche for help me, best 73
>>
>>
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