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Re: Dual Prolific PL2303 Serial Port USB devices have iSerial of 0?



On 18/05/20 4:44 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 17 May 2020 11:56:51 John Conover wrote:
> 
>> I have two Prolific PL2303 devices on a machine. The output of lsusb
>> is identical for both, including iSerial of 0, for both.
>>
>> Is there any way of doing udev SYMLINK+ with these devices?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     John
> TBT John, the best place for them is a drawer, to be used only long 
> enough to obtain FDTI devices for regular use. They goto sleep, (or 
> something) and you have to knock several times to re-awaken them, losing 
> data in the process. Strange disconnects will plague your system. BTDT, 
> used foul language, they slept right thru my tantrums.  FDTI stuff just 
> works.

FTDI, I think. Helps with web searching :-)

Richard


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