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    FTDI USB issue on Hardy - 2nd device never shows

    FYI - I live in Monument, CO and thought I'd ask this question more "locally" instead of globally.

    I have an Ubuntu 64 bit Hardy running in a VM on Fusion on my Mac. I also have 6 identical FTDI based USB devices I want to attach and talk to them.

    If I attach the first device, after a bit I see a /dev/ttyUSB0 show up and the appropriate log messages showing a connection appear in the /var/log/messages. So far, so good.

    When I attach the 2nd device, I never see another /dev/tty-anything show up. If I disconnect the first device, and reconnect the 2nd device, the 2nd device now shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0.

    It acts like it can only recognize one of these devices at a time.

    When I connect the 2nd device, there are no log messages in /var/log/messages on a physical connect or disconnect.

    I've also tried another approach which is to connect the devices when the VM is not active, so the devices are recognized by Mac OS X and show up as:

    tty.usbserial-A9003PjA
    tty.usbserial-A9003Plt

    Back in the Fusion VM, the VM Settings dialog will list two Future Devices USB devices and I can enable them and connect them. But the same thing happens. As soon as I enable/connect the first one through the Settings dialog of the VM, I see a /dev/ttyUSB0 show up but when I connect the 2nd one, nothing happens.

    Any clues about why Ubuntu is not enumerating more than one of these FTDI devices? (And I do not see any brltty errors and just in case, I did an apt-get remove brltty, so it's not in the picture anyway.)

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    Question Re: FTDI USB issue on Hardy - 2nd device never shows

    When you attach the other devices, are you able to see them when you run this?
    Code:
    lsusb
    It's very rare but if they have identical id's that might cause you some grief. I've never seen this happen before though. Note:
    Code:
    man lsusb
    ...for more options to get more detail from the devices.

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    Re: FTDI USB issue on Hardy - 2nd device never shows

    lsusb only shows one device. Adding the second does not show anything new via lsusb or via the log/messages.

    I know the devices are ID'd differently because when I plug them into my Mac they show up as:

    tty.usbserial-A9003PjA
    tty.usbserial-A9003Plt

    If they were ID'd differently, I don't think OS X could differentiate them like this.

    I have one native (non-VM) ubuntu box that I will try the same test on and see if it's possibly related to the VM vs the OS.

    Any other ideas are welcome.

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    Re: FTDI USB issue on Hardy - 2nd device never shows

    I hooked this same set of USB devices to a native Ubuntu Fiesty. At first it had the typical brltty conflict with FTDI, so I corrected it by:

    apt-get remove brltty

    and rebooted. After that both devices showed up fine as ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 on that machine.

    So, since I was running Hardy on the VMs that are having an issue, I don't know for sure yet whether it's a VM-related issue or wether it's Hardy vs Fiesty.

    I think I'll get a copy of Fiesty on the same VMWare Fusion and see if it works for that and try to eliminate the distro as a variable.

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    Re: FTDI USB issue on Hardy - 2nd device never shows

    Yes, the Arduino site
    say's to remove the brltty package. Apparently it causes a problem with the ftdi chips on the Arduino's.

    I wonder if your devices are Arduino AVR Microcontrollers?

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