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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">When I get home tonight I'll see if it still works under 'screen' as a serial console.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">I can't remember if it got used on a windows system or unix system last.<br></div>
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<div>On Wed, Apr 13, 2016, at 05:45 PM, Rodney Radford wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Arial;">Yes... they did back out the change that bricked the hardware, but if the hardware was used with the old driver, it does not un-brick when used with a new driver. They actually changed the vendor ID in the chip so no driver can find it again (even under Linux). So once brick'ed it stays brick'ed unless you can reprogram the vender ID.<br></div>
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<div>The latest Windows change is to send a garbage string from the driver back to the app, so not brick'ed, but also not usable. The advantage of this system is that switching drivers or OS's does restore the functionality again (ie: not permanent changes to the device).<br></div>
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<div defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:35 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonjwolfe@anibit.com">jonjwolfe@anibit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <a href="http://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/">http://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/</a><br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> This one doesn't brick the hardware per se, but will make it potentially unusable with the latest drivers. It doesn't affect Linux because the drivers are open-source, I don't know about OSX.<span><br> <br> <br> <br> On 2016-04-13 15:10, Rodney Radford via TriEmbed wrote:<br> </span></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;" defang_data-gmailquote="yes"><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span>Could you be a victim of FTDI-gate?<br> <br> If the answer to both of these questions is yes:<br> * Have you ever used this FTDI adapter on a Windows box?<br> * Is it possible you have an FTDI clone?<br> <br> <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innocent-users-chips-in-silent-update/">http://www.zdnet.com/article/ftdi-admits-to-bricking-innocent-users-chips-in-silent-update/</a><br></span> [3]</div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> had<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> repaired some broken HT1632-based LED displays with a new driver<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> chip<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> and wanted to test them, and the nearest thing at hand was an AVR<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> 1284P<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> "mighty mini" board, which needs an FTDI to program it.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> I hadn't used that since last year, and I've gone through a few<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> Arduino<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> verions since, so I had to go through the routine of updating my<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> "hardware" directory with a version which works with 1.6.7.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> My issue is when I try to program via the FTDI, something goes<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> wrong,<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> which then causes OSX to dump the driver, which makes the entry in<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> /dev/<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> and supposedly the solution is to use a utility to delete the kext<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> it.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"> Anyone gone through this successfully? I'm not SOL at the moment,<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> as I<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> can use my AVRISP MKII to program it directly through the ICSP<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> connector, but I do have other boards which lack that and need the<br></div>
<div style="font-family:Arial;"> FTDI.<br></div>
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