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Re: Installing FTDI drivers?

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:56:12 -0700
isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:

> would hope that the Arduino folks would be cautious about only
> putting legitimate chips on their boards.

i heard that there are multiple levels to the counterfeit chips
i.e. counterfeit arduino

> I'd advise to stay away from the venerable Prolific PL-2303, however. 
> Whether from driver problems or bad hardware I don't know, but I've 
> found the reliability to be spotty. Sometimes they just stop working
> and it takes an unplug-replug cycle to get them going again.

never had any problems with pl2303
do you mean while connected to a mac

always wondered how aapple deals with quirks in hardware
I would guess they would blame the other vendor and rightly
say "we follow the spec and you don't"

i know on linux that often drivers get modified to handle the case
where hardware is broken because the hw just doesn't match any
spec

common occurrence and proably partly due to language barriers
specs are hard enough for native language speakers


















 

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Installing FTDI drivers? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-03-26 08:47 -0700
  Re: Installing FTDI drivers? isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-26 09:56 -0700
    Re: Installing FTDI drivers? Bob E. <bespoke@invalid.tv> - 2015-03-26 10:33 -0700
      Re: Installing FTDI drivers? isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-26 21:01 -0700
        Re: Installing FTDI drivers? Bob E. <bespoke@invalid.tv> - 2015-03-27 09:01 -0700
    Re: Installing FTDI drivers? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-03-26 10:35 -0700
    Re: Installing FTDI drivers? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-27 21:07 -0700
      Re: Installing FTDI drivers? isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-28 21:26 -0700
        Re: Installing FTDI drivers? Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-03-30 12:18 -0700

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