FTDI FT232BM support

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Thu Jul 14 13:00:59 GMT 2005


On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:23:39AM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
>   There are USB->serial adapters VE042 made by Viewcon 
> (http://www.viewcon.net) available in local stores here. I've asked 
> Viewcon's
> support about base chip for this adapter, they've given me the answer:
> FTDI FT232BM. On FTDI site I see that this chip is the successor of the
> FT8U232AM. However, it isn't mentioned as the supported chip in
> uftdi(4). Is the support for FT232BM being planned (=is VE042 worth buying)?

The FT232BM is supported by the uftdi driver.
We just don't have support for the bit-bang feature of the chip yet.
I should take some time to list all chips in the manpage, but since
there are many new chip names, with the only difference of beeing
leadless, this would be a lengthly one.

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