<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">You may be able to stop windows 7 from updating the driver, as noted here:</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="" style=""><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500967" class="" style="">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500967</a></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="" style=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="" style="">I dont know for sure as I havent tried it.<br
class="" style=""><br></span></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div> <div style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <hr size="1" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> Niklas Johnson <niklas@ruggedradios.com><br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:54 AM<br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] Summer
Project : transcoding CHIRP<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""><div id="yiv2635797072" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="">Its wrong only if you have a 'counterfeit' Prolific chip, the most recent driver revisions that Prolific themselves provided to Microsoft detects and disables the non-genuine variants. Prolific is protecting their market share and IP, and Microsoft was providing a certified manufacturer supplied driver. </div>
<div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Pete Mackie <span dir="ltr" class="" style=""><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pete@seaquest.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:pete@seaquest.com" class="" style="">pete@seaquest.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="" id="yiv2635797072yqt29877" style=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word;" class="">Except starting with Mac OS X Mavericks Apple is providing an O/S built in USB to serial driver. I am using the Apple provided USB to serial driver with CHIRP with zero problems.<div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">
</div><div class="" style="">Windows has provides an O/S built in USB serial driver. The dilemma is the stupid Microsoft thinks they should automatically provide the latest O/S built in USB serial driver. And that is absolutely the wrong thing to do if you are using a Prolific USB / serial cable.</div>
<div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Pete<br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div class="" style="">On May 20, 2014, at 8:17 AM, Andrew <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ziltro@ziltro.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ziltro@ziltro.com" class="" style="">ziltro@ziltro.com</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style=""><br clear="none" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;" class="">
<span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;" class="">The drivers for certain USB/serial adapter cables will still be<span class="" style=""> </span></span><br clear="none" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;" class="">
<span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;" class="">required, and they seem to be the main thing causing problems on Windows<span class="" style=""> </span></span><br clear="none" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;" class="">
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