It was done to prevent use of the cloned chip. The cable is inserted into the radio, the transmitter will turn on. This When opening Device Manager, the Yellow Caution Triangle may not appear, however, when Windows may attempt to automatically load the Prolific driver 3.6.xx.xxx when inserting your cable. The last compatible Prolific driver was v3.3.2.105. The latest driver installed by Windows (Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10) is not compatible with these chips. Nearly every programming cable that is detected by Windows as having a Prolific chip was manufactured with an unauthorized or cloned copy of the Prolific PL2303HXA chip. Not, the driver and procedure can be found at this Link.ĭrivers for the Silicon Labs chipset (CP210x) should alsoĭownload automatically. The driver should also download automatically. Many Baofeng and generic programming cables are shipping with the WCH chipset (CH340/341).

Not all provided CDs come with the correct drivers.īy using Windows Device Manager, you should easily be able to determine whichĬables with FTDI chipset (FT232R) will automatically download the Not all cables load the correct driver automatically.

Programming cable Must have the correct driver installed

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