Windows 8 drivers for Logic Sniffer TOL-09857

Windows 8 drivers for Logic Sniffer TOL-09857#174386

By kielerrr - Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:18 pm

- Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:18 pm #174386

Found courtesy of @phalanx

http://sheldor.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/s ... iffer.html

*edited to make the post useful

Last edited by kielerrr on Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Re: Wasted time/money on dead product sold by sf#174405

By phalanx - Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:49 am

- Tue Sep 02, 2014 5:49 am #174405

There is a comment on the product page that links to a procedure for getting the drivers to work with Windows 8. Did you try it?

http://sheldor.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/s ... iffer.html

-Bill

Re: Wasted time/money on dead product sold by sf#174408

By kielerrr - Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:04 am

- Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:04 am #174408

@phalanx No but I will try this tonight.. Thank you for the direct link..

@sparkfun I appreciate access to the wide variety of components, but pleasseeeee hire somebody to keep your docs/links updated.. Your customers have enough variables to deal with in their projects already.. A tiny amount of diligence in doc/link maintenance will return to you 10x fold..

Re: Wasted time/money on dead product sold by sf#174413

By Ross Robotics - Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:29 am

- Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:29 am #174413

While I agree with kielerrr's comment for Sparkfun to keep their docs updated, I think this should have been done in private. Sounds like the OP didn't even contact SF's tech support which I know they are some of the best.

But, I too have been on product pages that the docs were 404. This is very frustrating to say the least. It seems that there are only a few (at most) SF employees that can edit site pages and they are backed up for weeks. Since the site is your main source of income (AFAIK), it would be beneficial to update the site more frequently. Even go as far as having someone browse over all the pages and click every link.

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Re: Wasted time/money on dead product sold by sf#174439

By Brennen@SparkFun - Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:36 pm

- Tue Sep 02, 2014 4:36 pm #174439

We do have a bit of a problem with linkrot at this point. Years ago, I had a linkchecker script cron'd to run over product pages daily and report 404s. It seems like probably that'd be worth doing again in the near term.

Longer-term, we have plans to break resources like datasheets out into their own table and model them more rigorously. That will probably lend itself to making sure they don't mysteriously vanish.

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