[BRLTTY] It had to happen: braille-braille usb id conflict

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I guess it had to happen at some point: I see in the new Cebra braille
> driver that these devices use USB ID 0403:6001, which is already used by
> some HandyTech devices... It really sucks if we can't even safely probe
> USB braille devices on the USB ID... (without even talking about the
> conflict with USB-Serial devices).

Maybe those manufacturers need a clue in the form of bug reports?

If they use the popular FTDI interface chip, it can be assigned a 
different ID permanently with a simple software fix executed on your PC.


Nicolas