there's actually nothing wrong with the clone chips; have you ever actually seen evidence of one dying? just bundle drivers with your cables
Type: Posts; User: steveo
there's actually nothing wrong with the clone chips; have you ever actually seen evidence of one dying? just bundle drivers with your cables
perhaps
one drawback is, as soon as you change the device id, all your generic drivers wont work. this also means that plugging this device into things you haven't planned for, but have perfectly...
if it's just the windows drivers that are the problem, let the knockoff chip mfrs change their device IDs and supply their own patched drivers. if you're using knockoff ftdi chips to make aldl...
typical.. the short usb cables supplied with made in China stuff are sometimes doa. keep in mind they are less than 10 cents in bulk so quality control is not done
use hyperterminal, turn off echo, jumper rx & tx together, and type stuff?
i dont care about the light, no garbage shows up in hyperterminal when you poke the rx/tx with the 5v? im calling defective board here or something.
how about get hyperterminal going
poke the rx pin with the 5v pin
if it's working you should get garbage in hyperterminal.
or type stuff in hyperterminal, tx light should light up on the...
i just chopped out my aldl port and replaced with one of these
I love it. . even has blinky lights! I love blinky lights
thanks for the tip Robert