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It's presumably for the same reason that people make knock-offs of chips like the MPU-401 UART and the ELM327. There's a large installed base of applications f
by dmatech 5y ago
It's presumably for the same reason that people make knock-offs of chips like the MPU-401 UART and the ELM327. There's a large installed base of applications for them.
The drivers themselves can't possibly be that complex. But getting a USB-IF vendor ID as well as drivers in Windows is probably a bit harder.
Not only does Linux have its own drivers, they can unbrick the damaged devices.
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb@vger.kernel.org/msg50762.html https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb@vger.kernel.org/msg50...
- bombcar 5y agoAlso Windows isn’t the only system out there - I suspect that being able to be used in various embedded solutions is also important.
- mdip 5y ago> Not only does Linux have its own drivers, they can unbrick the damaged devices. Thanks for that. I haven't used my counterfeit FTDI cable in probably 2 years, but I was trying to figure out how I had not encountered any issues with it. I only happened to find out it was counterfeit due to the fact that I purchased it via a link in a forum recommended by "some user", and later, when I had this stupid looking cable and no idea where to plug the ends into my Pi, I revisited the forum, scrolled down a few replies, and found out that all of the "FTDI" products from the manufacturer of my cable were fakes. Once I read that, I had intended on replacing it, but decided to wire it up anyway to see if it would work. I run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my main computer, and I don't remember having to do anything unusual, or encountering any warnings/errors at the time trying to use it[0], I'm guessing that's why... [0] I was trying to connect into a headless RPi and that was the most convenient way sometimes.