Connecting a FTDI interface to Linux

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Willem Ferguson
<willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
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> Do you have any suggestion on what the cause may be?

Does that dongle work in any other machine? Because it looks like just
plain broken hardware.

It could be as simple as just a bad connection on one of the data
lines or similar, so it might be one of those things where you could
actually open the thing up and look for breakage. But it's probably
not worth it.

               Linus