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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:43:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?
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> The FTDI devices keep the device descriptors etc. in an EEPROM, so my
> approach to the 'which port is which' problem was to change the textual
> part of the descriptor - "usbdevs -d" then immediately tells you what is
> going on.  The EEPROM is writable over the USB connection - I have a
> program to do so if anybody wants it.

Yes please - I also use the devices, and this would be very handy.

thanks,

-pete.