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From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com>
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Subject: Re: usb interface boards and drivers[solved]
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I was forgetting that this is FreeBSD, with unparallelled breadth of
hardware support 8-) 

So of course these chips are supported. 

     device uftdi
     device ucom

Peter.


On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:10 +0000, Peter Risdon wrote:
> I'm trying to determine the best way to interface a device like a servo
> motor controller to a usb bus. Boards such as those produced by FTDI
> would be useful but they have no FreeBSD drivers.
> 
> http://www.ftdichip.com/FTProducts.htm
> 
> If anyone knows of any similar products that do have FreeBSD drivers, or
> can suggest resources that document an alternative approach, I'd be very
> grateful for a steer.