[chirp_users] FTDI Chipset driver bricking fake FTDI chips

[Milton]

This is kind of like the author of a popular CD burning software back when
CDR started showing up. This software was pirated and the author knew it.
He posted a new version that if you had a pirated copy, it would fill your
had drive full of 1's and 0's. I thought that was going too far like FTDI
is by bricking counterfeit chips.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:17 PM, n4lbl <alan.schulman at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​and it changes.....
>
> /. FTDI Removes Driver >From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips
>
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/10/24/1330252/ftdi-removes-driver-from-windows-update-that-bricked-cloned-chips
> ​
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Aubrey Turner <aubrey.c.turner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The common wisdom with regards to USB-to-serial cables seems to be that
>> one should pick FTDI over Prolific because of all the Prolific
>> counterfeits in circulation.  It seems that this is now becoming a
>> problem with FTDI, as well.
>>
>> Up to now it was not a problem for the end-user.  FTDI has decided to
>> change that with their latest driver, which changes the configuration of
>> a "fake" FTDI chip so that it is rendered useless (at least without a
>> bit of fiddling with configuration tools and device IDs on Linux or XP).
>>
>> I hadn't realized that FTDI had such an issue with fake chips until I
>> read this article.  Some of the comments point out that the end-user of
>> the device has no way of knowing whether the chip is genuine or not.
>> Further, as noted above, many in the radio programming community
>> purchased devices touted as having FTDI chips in good faith as an effort
>> to avoid the counterfeits Prolific chips.
>>
>> Anyway, if you suddenly have issues with your FTDI USB-to-serial
>> adapter, take a look and see if the PID has been changed to 0.  If so,
>> then you may have been affected by this new driver.
>>
>> Sources:
>> -
>>
>> http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/
>> - http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/
>> - http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=270175.0
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