[Info-vax] USB based serial ports, was: Re: Useless Serial Bus

[Jose Baars]

On Oct 31, 11:49 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2011-10-29, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> That should be "brain dead under Windows". All the reports I've seen say
> that the Linux USB CDC driver works just fine.
>
You might be right, but from where I am looking at least the FTDI
drivers have been
incorporated in the Linux kernel.  Also the driver is GPL'ed and
downloadable from
the FTDI website. Some or part of these drivers have been reverse
engineered from the
Windows dll provided bij FTDI, though.
Why the drivers would work better under Linux than under Windows, or
OS/X, seems
unlikely to be caused by the drivers.
see also http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm