[chirp_users] Baofeng 888s cable issue

Mon Nov 21 13:17:28 PST 2016

Couple ways I would think.  Download the FTDI software (ok this goes back a few years when I was doing hardware design with USB) and it should report back the version of the chip.   Look at the properties of your device, the VID (vendor ID) and PID (product ID).  That's what the driver uses to determine what its talking to, that's sorta how plug n play works...how it knows what driver to load.  So by knowing what com port your plugged into, goto details tab of the device under the  control panel->system -> and device manager.  Depending on what OS your running....but none the less find the device manager.

This is what mine shows.  This cable programs any of the radios I've tried with it.

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Then if you want to know who's VID it really is

http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

and it shows the VID of 067b belongs to prolific and the PID of 2303 is a PL2303 serial port.

From: chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of sreeb
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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Baofeng 888s cable issue

No real way to know.

Even if you were to dismantle the cable, the chip is probably marked as the real thing.

One of  the reasons that there are so many fakes is that they get into the distribution system so that even manufactures that want to use real chips may fail.

On 11/20/2016 7:37 PM, Garth Robinson wrote:

Hi Jim,

..... so, how can one guarantee ( without dismantling the cable ) that there is a genuine chip within the cable? I'm even suspect of the Baofeng cables.

Garth. zl1tue  ..... an still shakin'

On 11/19/2016 11:14 AM, Jim Unroe wrote:

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Garth Robinson <soundtek at vodafone.co.nz><mailto:soundtek at vodafone.co.nz> wrote:

Hi, s'cuse me butting in but.......

        will these work under windoze 10 ?

I noticed that the webpage only mentioned xp, vista, 2000, win7 etc.  in

other words do you still have to use the backdated driver?

Garth,  zl1 tue

When using a Prolific type chip based programming cable with Windows,

you might as well count on using the backdated driver because the

majority of these chips are counterfeit. The device driver auto

installed by Windows has been incompatible with counterfeit chips

since around 2008. The backdated driver will work no matter if the

chip is genuine or not.

V2.0.2.1: Windows XP

V3.2.0.0: Windows Vista, 2000, 7, 8.x and 10

Both drivers can be obtained from links on the miklor.com website.

Jim KC9HI

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