Windows 7 Update, FTDI KUSB and Fluke

[Paul Kirley]

Windows 7 Update advises me that an optional update is available for
"Fluke - Other hardware - USB Serial Converter     706 KB"
Windows says that this update was published "Yesterday", i.e., 9/22/11.

The only USB Serial Converter that I have is the FTDI KUSB purchased
from Elecraft on last January 26.

Back in April, I got similar updates from Windows, but those updates
included "FTDI" in their descriptions.  As far as I know, my KUSB
worked
fine both before and after those April updates.

I am aware that there have been problems with non-FTDI KUSB cables, and
I would like to avoid those problems.  

Does anyone know if Fluke has taken over FTDI, or is this an update
that should not be elected?

Thanks and 73,
Paul W8TM

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[Grant Youngman]

FTDI is chipset used by a variety of vendors.  KeySpan, Fluke, and others sell Rs232 adapters  based on the chipset.  So perhaps your adapter IDs itself as a Fluke (brand) adapter.

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> .  
>
> Does anyone know if Fluke has taken over FTDI, or is this an update
> that should not be elected?
>
> Thanks and 73,
> Paul W8TM
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[Matt Zilmer]

I have oner the BCD396T (TrunkTracker from Uniden) that ID's as
'Uniden'.  It's FTDI, however.

73,
matt W6NIA

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:14:52 -0500, you wrote:

>FTDI is chipset used by a variety of vendors.  KeySpan, Fluke, and others sell Rs232 adapters  based on the chipset.  So perhaps your adapter IDs itself as a Fluke (brand) adapter.
>
>Grant/NQ5T
>
>> .  
>>
>> Does anyone know if Fluke has taken over FTDI, or is this an update
>> that should not be elected?
>>
>> Thanks and 73,
>> Paul W8TM
>>
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[Joe Subich, W4TV-4]

> FTDI is chipset used by a variety of vendors.  KeySpan, Fluke, and
> others sell Rs232 adapters  based on the chipset.  So perhaps your
> adapter IDs itself as a Fluke (brand) adapter.

The Fluke adapter uses the same VID (vendor ID: 0403=FTDI) and PID
(product ID: FT232 USB UART) as the generic FTDI USB serial converter.
In my case the USB port in the SDR-IQ also uses the FTDI default
VID/PID and the "new" Fluke driver (FTDI 2.8.14) was installed for
it.

I suspect the FTDI version of KUSB also uses the default VID/PID

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV



On 9/23/2011 9:14 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:

> FTDI is chipset used by a variety of vendors.  KeySpan, Fluke, and others sell Rs232 adapters  based on the chipset.  So perhaps your adapter IDs itself as a Fluke (brand) adapter.
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>> .
>>
>> Does anyone know if Fluke has taken over FTDI, or is this an update
>> that should not be elected?
>>
>> Thanks and 73,
>> Paul W8TM
>>
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