[Coco] Need Driver for USB to RS232 TTL UART cable

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 January 2016 06:40:03 Mathew Boytim via Coco wrote:

> Hi Kip,
>
> You will probably get a better answer from someone using that cable,
> but it uses the Prolific chip and the driver should be available via
> Windows update.  for older version of windows you can google for
> "PL2303HX driver" and should find it at the Prolific site.
>
> However, I had several similar cables I had used with XP but when I
> got a new laptop with Windows 7 the Prolific driver would blue-screen
> within just a few minutes of use and eventually I had to stop using
> them.  Now I only use cables that use the FTDI chip.  I've read that
> FTDI did something in their driver to prevent it from working with the
> Chinese clone chips but I don't know if that's true since all of mine
> are genuine FTDI chips and when buying more cables I'm always careful
> to get ones with genuine FTDI chips, which means no el cheapo direct
> from China.
>
> Recently I needed a cable with RS232 levels not logic levels,
> coincidentally to connect to a Radio Shack Multi-Pen Plotter.  For
> this I bought a Sabrent CB-FTDI  (you can see FTDI in the name) retail
> packaged from reputable US seller - for $15.  But it is genuine
> Sabrent cable with genuine FTDI chip.
>
> Matt
>
Th pl2303 chip is, as far as I am concerned, a broken chip, and I too use 
nothing but the FTDI for my usb<->db9 cables.  Or for long range usb 
extensions. I have some 10 meter USB2.0 extensions, and they Just 
Work(TM).

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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