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Is it possible to reset FTDI virtual com ports enumeration, we easily get hundreds of COM ports in production environment
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I have also asked this on serverfault but perhaps it is better suited to be asked here? I hope I'm not breaking any etiquette. When producing devices that use a FTDI USB to serial chip to communicate with a Windows host, we get hundreds of COM-ports, since Windows seems to just increase the port nu…
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I'm not at work so I don't have any hardware in front of me, but the FTDI application note AN_107 - Advanced Driver Options looks to have some promising options. In particular, I think the "Ignore Hardware Serial Number" (section 7.1, page 20) optio…
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