FTDI at it again

[James Sentman]

Interestingly enough I don’t think that it’s actually necessary to install FTDI’s drivers in El Capitan anymore at all. Either that or they come with it. I THINK that Apple has some built in support for them now. On my laptop I installed the drivers as soon as I updated and have had nothing but trouble with them. They won’t reload after I unplug something so testing devices often means restarting or at least moving the devices to a different USB port. I updated my server with a new small SSD drive since those have gotten so cheap lately and you really don’t need TB of space to run your XTension server, put the media libraries on an external ;) I installed El Capitan on that fresh without upgrading the existing drive and then swapped them out. I moved all my apps and their preferences and databases over and all the FTDI based interfaces are just working. I did not install any drivers. 

I haven’t tested in any great detail over there yet, I haven’t tried to make them fail, but it’s been several weeks and the actual headaches have been pretty minor overall. 

If you’re having trouble with the FTDI stuff, or just no longer trust them not to mess with your devices, you might try uninstalling their drivers entirely once you’ve upgraded to El Capitan. They don’t seem necessary and the apple ones seem to be working fine. At least it’s worth a try...


> On Feb 2, 2016, at 11:01 PM, ard jonker <ard.jonker at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> Most of us, if not all, use FTDI chips in the command chain of XTension.
> Of course, on this list, nobody uses Windows. Nobody uses fake chips either.
> The following is a good reason not to:
> http://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/
> You've been warned.

Thanks,
 James


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