barrowbiker Says:| I didn’t get a further response from Bandridge, after they had originally emailed me to say they won’t support their product.Says:| Hi Barrowbiker, You are a star!! So pleased with your post – It works a treat (as you know!) Did you get a reply from Bandridge? Regards.5 Responses to “Further to the Bandridge CPL4201 USB to serial adapter: A fix!” You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. Related Tags:, This entry was posted on Maat 5:37 pm and is filed under. One of them might be adapted in the future. * I now own two USB to serial port adapters (woo-yay!?). * Bandridge don’t want to take thirty seconds to re-package the Pacific driver with their branding. The summary seems to be: * Bandridge can’t be bothered to redirect enquires about Windows drivers to the Pacific driver page (link above). For the record, the CPL4201 I have is a vanilla PL2303. There is a similar, but incompatible, USB to serial adapter based on the PL2303X but someone has about it and come up with a patch. PL2303 Serial Port” The important parts are the Vendor ID 067B, and the Product ID 2303.

(A modern Linux kernel will have the driver built in) For completeness’s sake the CPL4201 gives this response to “lsusb” on my Ubuntu system: “Bus 006 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. Also there are drivers for WinCE, Mac OS 8, 9, 10.1 and above, and for Red Hat Linux. There are drivers there for versions of Windows from ’98 to 7, and the vast majority of in-between versions too.

You can get the driver from Pacific themselves. The Bandridge CPL4201 USB to serial adapter is actually a Pacific PL2303. Today, doing a little more research and experimentation I found out something I suspect Bandridge would rather keep secret. Bandridge is sold online worldwide by numberous resellers. Download drivers for most types of USB to serial adapters and converters. USB to serial drivers for most serial RS232 devices. USB Serial Adapter Drivers for all FTDI Chip USB Serial Adapter Cables including Windows 7 serial usb driver and Windows 8 32 and 64-bit.

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