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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:59:46 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTDI FT232BM support
Message-ID:  <20050714125945.GS71197@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050714091157.T86910@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
References:  <20050714091157.T86910@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>

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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.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
bernd@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de




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