Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:29 -0400, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>   
>> I run into this with FTDI chips. They in fact added the unique serial 
>> number as a "feature". The PC I use for programming them has over a 
>> hundred COM ports so far. I am not sure when Windows will run out ;-)
>> AFAIK you can program them with the same serial number, but in order 
>> to program them, you have to plug them in, and Windows needs to 
>> install the driver...
>>
>> One solution would be to write a programmer for the Mac; it doesn't 
>> install a new driver for each device. It is smart enough to realize 
>> the existing driver works OK. Hmm.. since the direct drivers are now 
>> out for the Mac, that's a possibility...     I wonder if the same is 
>> true for lunix also.
>>     
>
> For linux the common USB->serial converter drivers are either built
> directly into the kernel, or dynamically loaded as a driver module on
> bootup. There is no "driver install" step. As with some many thing on
> Linux these days: "you plug it in, and it just works".
>
> Who would have thought there would be a day where installing a new
> device in Linux would be LESS work and bother then Windows?
>
>   
What I have generally observed is that linux supports more stuff out of 
the box than windows but when stuff doesn't work out of the box it is 
far more of a pain to get working in linux than in windows.


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