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I recently bought a USB serial cable online to play around with this sort of thing, and promptly saw a blue-screen in windows 10 for the first time I can rememb
by satori99 8y ago
I recently bought a USB serial cable online to play around with this sort of thing, and promptly saw a blue-screen in windows 10 for the first time I can remember.
It turned out I had unknowingly bought a fake Prolific cable and the (non-fake) windows driver was crashing my whole system every five minutes or so when the cable was connected.
I worked around this by tracking down an older driver with no crash issues so I guess the latest one does this deliberately?
In any case, if you are planning on getting a USB serial cable make sure it's not a counterfeit, if you can.
- hueving 8y agoRelevant reading: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/31/ftdi_accused_of_bricking_counterfeits_again/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/31/ftdi_accused_of_bri...
- berti 8y agoTL;DR Avoid anything that even sounds like it might involve FTDI unless you can absolutely prove supply chain from one end to the other (near impossible). There are some good alternatives like SiLabs CP2102 around.
- oakwhiz 8y agoI personally stick with Silicon Labs CP210x devices ever since I had bad luck with Prolific. I avoid FTDI chips as well because of the aggressive anti-consumer behavior of FTDI in regards to their drivers.
- Fnoord 8y agoI recently bought these as well. These worked for me [1] [2]. Didn't need a driver on Windows/Linux/macOS. KiTTy, Minicom, cu, etc. [1] https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00QUZY4UG https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00QUZY4UG [2] https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00SBBFUAA https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00SBBFUAA