![]() Well, this thread revival made me curious enough to open my own usb to serial adapter. If we like to be called as healthy thinking persons. And I think that is also our obligation to protect the work of the others. And it turned out that just the paper work its so costly, and that is very difficult for a single person to handle the costs. We had many conversations in this forum, about how to protect our own work, when it comes to the point our ideas to turn in to products. In my eyes they do well about protecting them self's, because they have one healthy hardware and software solution, that it can be trusted by their corporate partners, and there is an warranty, that the End User will get something that really works and be happy with it. The driver is very well made, and has even the option to change the COM port number, so the device to become compatible with any communication software settings, and it does that with out even rebooting windows. ( As part of their own products ) And even the software it self ( Driver) it is part of the Prolific property. Who they invest their money on buying the technology made by Prolific, and resale it with their own products. Secondly, needs to protect their own customers, that are brand-names recognizable in the market. 2) Their work it must be patented, and so they have to protect it. Prolific needs to protect them self's from all those counterfeit parts. But now, you do not have the excuse to say that you was not warned about it My explanation to your questions will focus on the what called as correct and healthy corporate cooperation. If you ever interested to get an such no-name fake solution from eBay, be my guest. They describe it politely as chip validity and support. Windows 2000/XP/Server2003 (32 & 64-bit) WDM WHQL Driver: v2.0.16.166 Windows Vista/7/Server2008 (32 & 64-bit) WDF WHQL Driver: v3.3.17.203 Prolific has an warning about the fake chips in their website too. Probably they work fine, and this explains the reason of why they do not update it. About the drivers age, the last made from Prolific was at 2007. ![]() And probably in many other old modems that use IR communications like laptops or mobile phones. Currently this chip is also found on the Agilent USB -> IR modems. If the Prolific chip in your adapter is a fake copy, the driver does not work with it. And the latest Prolific driver, it does one identity recognition at the hardware too. Even so the company gives their chips only to branded companies. sys drivers from there.Prolific (PL2303) adapter is an common solution about USB to Serial port adapters. exe installer and run it inside a VM and then navigate to AppData/temp and retrieve the. This driver appears to work with Windows 10, though a BSOD can be triggered if you attempt to share/unshare the device with VMware.Īlternatively, download the. There is a copy of version 3.3.2.105 of the drivers compatible with Vista in the Cloud/programs/drivers directory. Short of buying another serial device, the only way to get around it is to use an older version of the driver. Fortunately, their drivers no longer brick the counterfeit device. Windows will automatically download the latest driver which comes with this 'feature'. Prolific's newer drivers will check whether the Prolific chip is authentic and if a clone is detected, the driver will refuse to function. Troubleshooting THIS IS NOT PROLIFIC PL2303 PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SUPPLIER Clone chips perform each write immediately which allows Prolific's driver to overwrite the firmware. If this address is not subsequent to the even address, the write is request is ignored. The driver detects a counterfeit device is by exploiting the behavior of a real chip where write requests to an even address are deferred until it receives the next subsequent request at the odd address. Since then, most cheap serial adapters on Ebay use the CH340 or CP2102 controllers instead. Cloned versions of the controller was commonly found in serial adapters from Ebay/China until around 2014 when Prolific began bricking cloned devices by overwriting the firmware via the drivers. The Prolific 2303 is a USB to serial controller.
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