docs(series4): confirmed -- the cable came home with the failed unit
Removes the last caveat. The Benfei (Prolific PL2303) on the bench is physically the cable from the failed office setup, not a substitute picked up later. The chain has no inference left: that cable is a PL2303; the Micromate USB host has no Prolific driver in either firmware line; a laptop on the same cable and modem round-trips perfectly; the Micromate on it never answered. The FTDI cable arriving 2026-09-26 is now a confirmation rather than a test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ru8Lg9HkkYvX9VWWo65SmL
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@@ -2143,10 +2143,18 @@ the failure began when the pair was split across two cables and one of them was
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the wrong chipset. **One working and one not, set up side by side, is the
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signature of a mixed cable supply** — not of a unit fault.
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⚠ Still worth confirming: whether that cable travelled home *with* the unit, or
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was picked up separately at the bench. If it travelled with it, there is no
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inference left. Either way the FTDI cable arriving 2026-09-26 settles it — same
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unit, same modem, one variable.
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✅ **The cable travelled home with the unit** (confirmed 2026-09-25). So the
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Benfei on the bench is physically the cable from the failed office setup — not a
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substitute picked up later. There is no inference left in the chain:
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| the cable from the failed unit | **is** a Benfei / Prolific PL2303 |
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| the Micromate's USB host | has **no** Prolific driver, in either firmware line |
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| a laptop on that same cable + modem | round-trips perfectly |
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| the Micromate on it | never answered |
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The FTDI cable arriving 2026-09-26 is now a confirmation rather than a test.
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**Corollary worth knowing.** The standing workaround — *"just deploy a Series III
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instead"* — works partly because a **MiniMate Plus has a DB-9 port directly on the
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