<p>The prolific chip is the most commonly counterfeited hardware too. I had one that worked in Windows, but nothing else. found out that the adapter was a fake. Prolific had a site up talking about the counterfeited stuff.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 4, 2012 7:12 PM, "<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just out of curiosity, has anyone here actually seen a WORKING chip from Prolific?<br>
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I'm finding myself wondering how the hell they're still in business. Every USB cable I have purchased that has a PL* chip in it simply doesn't work. Doesn't matter if we're talking about serial or parallel interfaces, they just never ever work.<br>
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And of course, you can never tell what chipset is in the stupid things until you've bought them and hooked them up and then you have that "D'oh!" moment.<br>
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Seems that Fry's only carries such cables, so I guess I won't be buying from there anymore. Linux kernel devs strongly suggest avoiding them.<br>
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The problem this time? It will receive data from a modem, but not transmit to the modem. So I can see:<br>
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RING<br>
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RING<br>
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But if I try to send "ATA" nothing happens, no echo, no going off-hook, no screeching, no nothing.<br>
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Wonderful, yes?<br>
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SO anyway, just curious: has anyone heard of a chip from this manufacturer actually performing as intended, or do they just hate me?<br>
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--- Mike<br>
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-- <br>
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than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.<br>
--- Carveth Read, “Logic”<br>
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