On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Cliff Scott <c...@intergate.com> wrote: > I'm not offended. You've had a bad experience. I haven't yet. I suppose their > drivers not working on the copied chips is their way of telling you that you > got a bad one, but of course they should come right out and say this chip is > not a real one so you know it isn't a software problem.
I didn't want to elaborate on my troubles, but suffice to say that the cables worked poorly only with the drivers included on the CD, faults included: -only worked at 9600bps or lower port speed -'"hanging'" when changing the port speed, to the point I had to unplug the cable and plug it again to get it to work again... -"noise" (it was not a parity problem) when talking to a modem... NONE OF THE ABOVE happened with linux, so I guess the FOSS drivers are better than the in-house developed drivers for Windows... BUT, I needed to use the adapter with Windows, not Linux. Attempting to use newer drivers other than those on the CD resulted in the "yellow exclamation mark" in Device Manager that they warn about. But perhaps more confusingly, they offer a tool along the newer driver that inquires and shows the chipset version... it worked on my cables and showed the chipset version (I dont remember the details at the moment),when supposedly it would only work on legit chips (so I guess my cables had legit chips, but they still malfunctioned, or should I guess that those were copies, but the copiers got better and managed to impersonate newer chip revisions? who knows.... I'm not n engineer or interpol detective to deal with all this stuff. Put yourself on my shoes for a minute.... what would you think about Prolific after this... So, that's the long story on why I recommend FTDI and do not recommend Prolific... YMMV And with regards to spelling, please keep in mind that: 1. English is not my native language 2. I have enough with Spanish (native), Italian (mother's), and some rudimentary Brazilian Portuguese, to be 100% perfect wrt my English spelling 3. I use a tablet -which causes lots of accidental typos 4. I'm typing on a mailing list, not composing the text that goes on a corporate web site. The bar should be lower for me :) Well, that's it. I hope I've made myself clearer now. Best regards, FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
