On Freitag, 9. September 2016 08:15:37 PYT Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 08:46 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > > I've used USB-to-serial adapters with the Prolific chipset. They've > > worked fine for me, in various models. (I haven't tried FTDI and am > > suspicious of them.) > > And my experience is the opposite. I have genuine (there's apparently a > lot of fakes) FTDI devices in pretty much daily use for many years > without problems. This is using ser2net on a local network for accessing > serial consoles on ARM based development boards. ser2net will be > insecure telnet or raw port forwarding but if it's not exposed to the > internet and you can ssh tunnel into the local network then that's a lot > better. I've done that method for carrying on working with my boards > whilst across the other side of the world. Of course, a means of power > cycling devices is also essential.
I second that. I had many weird problems with PL2303 but never any on any OS* with FTDI FT232 chips. [*] Debian-Linux, OpenBSD, OSX and MS-Windows -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE