Hello, this is my first thread here. I have been having trouble connecting my Meade DS-2114S to my laptop. I have to use a USB to Serial adapter, but the autostar software does not find my telescope, I suspect it may be the driver for the comm3 port not working correctly in Windows 10. Actually, I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there a special driver for this to work in Windows 10? If anyone knows what may be happening I would appreciate some help. Thanks
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When I upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10 my USB serial adapter no longer worked. When I went into Windows device manager I could see it had an error. After some research I found out that it had an old chipset used in the USB serial adapter and it was no longer supported. There was no driver for Windows 8 or Windows 10. So I went out and bought a new one off of ebay for $13:
If your USB/Serial adapter has a Prolific PL-2303 chips set, you can go to Prolific site and download their latest drivers. In the download package is a CheckChipVersion.exe and it will tell you the chip sets version. Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 are NOT supported in PL-2303HXA and PL-2303X versions of the chips. There is also a warning about counterfeit clone chips coming from china.
The profilic driver works for many of the USB/Serial adapters. Often a windows 10 update will remove the driver, requiring you to re-install it. The automatic update and driver search will not find it.
This is a well know problem of many old Prolific devices, including some chinese fakes (see the Prolific web site for details). A possible solution, working under Windows 10, consists of forcing the system to use an old version of the driver. In my case the driver version 3.24.25.218(07/10/2010) works perfectly.
a) Install in your computer a working old version of the driver. Installation must be done when the PC is NOT connected to the web, to avoid the automatic installation of the last Windows 10 non compatible version of the driver. You may get the old working driver from one of the chinese vendors in Ebay (not available from official Prolific Channels).
b) Remember to use always the same USB port to connect the USB-to-RS232 cable to your PC.. If you use a different port, the PC will automatically load from the web the Windows 10 driver and the USB-to-RS232 cable will not work any more.
c) If case b) occurs, open the Windows device manager, and update the driver of the Prolific USB-to-RS232 Comm Port. Choose to manually install a driver already present in your PC and force the PC to install the working old version of the driver.
I've now upgraded all 5 of my computers to Windows 10. I use a wide range of astronomy software. Every upgrade has gone smoothly. I have not had to reinstall a single item. The problem with Prolific chip sets has been around since Windows 8. It's really up to the chip vendors to upgrade their drivers, not Microsoft. I use the FTDI stuff so it's not a problem on either of my mounts. I'm sure, though, that many people bought the prolific (I bought two back in 2008) based on recommendations from the telescope/software vendors. I may try the suggested work around because I still have two of these sitting in my parts drawer gathering dust and who knows when I might need one for something..
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I will be moving from PC to Mac, but will need to run a Windows application that uses a serial port, using boot camp. Would I be right in thinking I would need to install this adapter under Windows using a Windows driver?
Prolific seem to be deliberately isolating compatibility against these devices in the newest Windows drivers, and wondered if thats the same with the mac drivers. Its just not worth wasting time putting in drivers to have to fight them out again when prolific deliberately make them to not work.
I followed the instructions, and got the driver to show in system report, but never in the network control panel. ZTerm worked, showing me that the driver works (and helped as a step), but minicom is the best app for the job- easy to configure, and remotely accessible with terminal. Great site- thanks for the help!
The Problem is OSX10.11 does not allow unsigned kext to be loaded except for a workaround i described to andrius (either its the post down or up to this one) The driver itself is fine and i am using it on 10.11. The problem is the unsigned state. What you guys would have to do to make it work again is to sign the KEXT with apple and provide it in a signed state. Thats all.
By the way. This method works with any unsigned driver!!! If you have a non working USB device check the /System/Library/Extensions path for a .kext file with the name of your device. if you find it there and your device is not working you can be sure its a signature problem. just use the commands i described above and change the filename of the .kext to the filename you need.
Hi Doug,If you have the Plugable adapter, the latest driver for OS X is properly signed and there is no need to turn off SIP in order to install it. If you are having problems getting it installed, please contact us at support@plugable.com and we can help.
David, thanks for the response, I should start at the beginning, I have an older Cables 2 Go USB2Serial cable and my research indicated that the driver I needed was this one. It works on a windows PC but since I use a MAC most of the time I was trying to get it to work. However, I have since ordered a plugable adapter and I think it should be here today and I am sure that will solve my problem. I will keep you posted.
First of all, the most direct way you should try is to update the outdated or missing driver. Or, you can disable and reenable it in Device Manager. If the driver is corrupted, you can uninstall it and restart the computer to let Windows install a new driver automatically.
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