tl866ii

Last update: Thu Jun 5 22:25:41 2025

Bought me a nice programmer TL866II on eBay, and thtat was 50 USD well invested. It flashes the EEPROM in a snap of fingers, and works fine on Linux... though there's a thing to remember.

Get it to work on Linux (Mint 19.x)

(basically a copy of this article, kudos to the writer).

Install Wine

Install the udev rules with the appropriate vendor/device id, put your user in plugdev group

Install the Xgecu binary app on Wine

Download https://github.com/radiomanV/TL866 : you don't need the firmware, but the Wine driver

You don't need to build it, the .dll file you need is built already

Copy the setupapi.dll from the above git and put the file in the same folder as the Xgecu main .exe

Done! Enjoy!

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