[time-nuts] uCenter driver

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Sun Nov 30 18:27:39 EST 2014


One of the lists I get bemoans a loss of connection due to FTDI action against
counterfeits.
Don

Bob Camp
> Hi
>
> I have never seen driver level com port allocation problems on any version of
> Windows using the FTDI drivers. They have always been well behaved and stable.
> That’s why I designing in their chips ….
>
> Bob
>
>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> michael.cook at sfr.fr said:
>>> There has recently been comments on the COM port allocation in relation to
>>> the LTE-Lite project which reminded me that I have seen an issue trying to
>>> run multiple instances of the uCenter software in order to
>>> monitor/configure
>>> multiple uBlox receivers at the same time. Unfortunately only one virtual
>>> COM port is created located to the first instance. I cannot get multiple
>>> COM
>>> ports allocated when plugging in another unit. Anyone seen this? ...
>>
>> The LTE-Lite uses a vanilla FTDI serial to USB chip.  I use Linux and often
>> have more than one plugged into a system without any problems.
>>
>> I'd be surprised if Windows has troubles with more than one.  (But I've been
>> surprised before.)
>>
>> I don't know anything about the uCenter software.
>>
>> Can you talk to both with your favorite terminal program?
>>
>>
>>
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