On Friday 05 January 2007 11:35, Dieter wrote: > I haven't checked, but I suspect that the FTDI devices have sufficient > docs. >
I fought this battle with FTDI a couple of years ago. The neat features you get on Windows are not (and will never be) available in the Linux drivers, because the interface specs are "critical intellectual property" and thus they could *never* let filthy dirty open source hippies look at them. In addition, the hardware I used was horrifically buggy -- the actual performance only very loosely matched the timing specifications in the datasheet... as well as one of the IO modes not working, and when I called them up to ask what was going on they said, "Oh, sorry, that doesn't work. Use a different mode instead." Thus requiring large amounts of bodging on the PCB I paid £5000 for... Peter -- Fisher Society committee http://tinyurl.com/o39w2 CUSBC novices, match and league secretary http://tinyurl.com/mwrc9 CU Spaceflight http://tinyurl.com/ognu2 v3sw6YChw7$ln3pr6$ck3ma8u7+Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Gb8en6g6Pa2Xs5Mr4p4 hackerkey.com peter-b.co.uk
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