Thanks, that was the final link I hope someone would post. I have many more
links, but this is not the right forum for that.
Now, everyone - STOP posting FTDI information to time-nuts.
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If you want to discuss FTDI or Windows driver issues please subscribe
just look that:
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Jim Lux wrote:
...
This dispute reminds me of another one.
A long long time ago, .gif was the internet standard for encoding photographs.
Far
and away the favorite. Then the owner (was it
AOL?) decided to enforce their patent by getting snotty with end users. Almost
overnight, .gif virtually
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:31 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] If any of your USB devices have stopped working
lately...
This dispute reminds me of another one.
A long long time ago, .gif was the internet standard for encoding photographs.
Fa
Hi
Licensing a legit USB ID costs money, both up front and ongoing. Writing
drivers that keep up with the OS rev’s costs money. Supporting all this stuff
with web sites and on the phone costs money. FTDI supports their products much
better than the “other guys” you could buy from. That’s why th
I read somewhere that you can pay FTDI and re-enable the devices but
further in the article it said they would be permanently disabled in
windows. Confusing.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:47 PM, jim s wrote:
> Petty BS. If they want to disable the competitors, rev the device to have
> something t
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:45:16 +
Mark Sims wrote:
> Happened to a friend of mine. All his Arduino stuff died. This
> could be the reason:
> http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232
> Short story: FTDI released a new version of their USB driver (via
> Windows au
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:02:37PM -0500, Bill Dailey wrote:
> Well..if they didn't properly license the technology... They should be
> disabled.
The problem is the fine print...where FTDI also states they
won't support any chip they actually made before 2012...so some of those
being dis
PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] If any of your USB devices have stopped working
lately...
This dispute reminds me of another one.
A long long time ago, .gif was the internet standard for encoding photographs.
Far and away the favorite. Then the owner
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 6:45 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
>
> Happened to a friend of mine. All his Arduino stuff died. This could be
> the reason:
I’ve been following this matter closely; just yesterday I received a handful of
FT232RLs
from Mouser. As someone that makes use of serial-to-USB all the
Petty BS. If they want to disable the competitors, rev the device to
have something that they can use to id their devices, and leave the
other driver alone. USB supposed to put the widest support in the host
end, and the secret sauce in the device.
If they have a problem, they will not produ
Unfortunately the issue that FTDI is trying to combat is counterfeiters,
and I think you will find that the counterfeit devices will report the
same product and vendor id as the genuine ones. The product and vendor
ids are how the OS identifies a device and how they decide which device
driver
This dispute reminds me of another one.
A long long time ago, .gif was the internet
standard for encoding photographs. Far and
away the favorite. Then the owner (was it
AOL?) decided to enforce their patent by
getting snotty with end users. Almost overnight,
.gif virtually disappeared off the f
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:05 PM, paul swed wrote:
> Umm I think its profoundly hard to know one way or another what chip you
> have in a widget.
Before you buy it yes, you can't know. But it's trivial to find out
after you own it. For example click the Apple logo then choose "about
this Mac" an
Yes it is hard to tell, I believe that is the aim of people in the
counterfeiting business, if it was easy to tell they would not get very
far. I do however believe that FTDI has the right to protect their
intellectual property. I don't believe they are in the business of
enabling counterfeit
The solution is for the infringing manufacturer to write their own
driver that tests for one of their chips and then gives the chip a
valid legal ID of their own. This is what they should have done
in the first place.
On 10/23/2014 07:05 PM, paul swed wrote:
Umm I think its profoundly hard to k
Umm I think its profoundly hard to know one way or another what chip you
have in a widget. This is pretty insane actually.
I buy products that I believe are legit no way to know just as if the cpu
in my acer or emachines not legal. Heck I have no idea.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1
Well..if they didn't properly license the technology... They should be
disabled.
Sent from my iPad
> On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
>
> Happened to a friend of mine. All his Arduino stuff died. This could be
> the reason:
> http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-k
Happened to a friend of mine. All his Arduino stuff died. This could be the
reason:
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232
Short story: FTDI released a new version of their USB driver (via Windows
automatic updates no less) that bricks other vendor's compatible
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