[Elecraft] KUSB to Serial

[David Woolley (E.L)]

Neill Taylor wrote:

> 
> It does seem to use the Prolific chip, judging by messages I saw as the 
> driver was installing.
> 

One thing to note here is that Prolific are obviously a B2B (business to 
business) supplier.  When they say that they can't supply drivers to 
consumers, they don't mean that the driver doesn't exist but just that 
their business model is not set up to provide things directly to consumers.

(Some such vendors will make drivers available for download, which is 
generally OK as long the OEM cannot cutomise the relevant parts of the 
hardware.  Also, interestingly a lot of Windows drivers aren't really 
drivers, but rather parameter files that tell the real driver that a 
particular USB ID requires, for example, a USB serial driver.)
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