Yeah, with FTDI - we had a number of students in the University I worked at buy FTDI serial cables and wonder why their hardware no longer worked, or that they couldn't programme the microcontrollers.
It's not only FTDI - Prolific PL2303 based cables with fake chips often prompted Code 10 driver errors with more recent drivers, and this led to even more ugliness with Prolific refusing to support older PL2303 iterations in Windows 10 to try and stamp out clones.
It's why I'm happy to see the market moved towards Silabs CP2102 bridge chips for a bit. Those have worked very well for me overall, with no such driver headaches. I'm sure there are probably fakes of the CP2102 as well. But the Winchiphead CH34x series seem to be even cheaper but are rather unstable. It's an annoying alternative that some Chinese manufacturers have decided to adopt.
It's not only FTDI - Prolific PL2303 based cables with fake chips often prompted Code 10 driver errors with more recent drivers, and this led to even more ugliness with Prolific refusing to support older PL2303 iterations in Windows 10 to try and stamp out clones.
It's why I'm happy to see the market moved towards Silabs CP2102 bridge chips for a bit. Those have worked very well for me overall, with no such driver headaches. I'm sure there are probably fakes of the CP2102 as well. But the Winchiphead CH34x series seem to be even cheaper but are rather unstable. It's an annoying alternative that some Chinese manufacturers have decided to adopt.
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