[chirp_users] Prolific Chip On Windows 11

[Jeff Gallaway]

Wow, I just went to the Miklor website to check it out and the wealth of
information on there is incredible! I should have visited that website a
long time ago.

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 9:13 PM Benton <benton at siletzbay.com> wrote:

> On 3/2/23 17:09, Anthony (N2KI) wrote:
>
> I plugged a Baofeng programming cable into a laptop running Windows 11 but
> Win11 does not have the drivers to support it.  Anyone have a programming
> cable that works on both Windows 10 and 11?
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony (N2KI)
>
>
> Someone will probably reply with a more complete answer but the short form
> is that the current drivers can detect counterfeit prolific part (and FTDI,
> for that matter) and refuse to work with them.  Your cable is almost
> certainly built with a counterfeit chip.
>
> What you need to do is point your web-browser at miklor.com and dig down
> to the instructions for downloading and installing the Prolific v3.2.0.0
> driver, which predates the counterfeit detection, and use that.  Also lock
> it in place so that Windows doesn't replace it again with the newer rev.
>
> Benton 2mar23
> --
> NX7O
> benton at siletzbay.com
>
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