FTDI Win 98 Drivers - Revision Comments April 20, 2004
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FTDI’s drivers have been changed to accommodate the support of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 for all
three of FTDI’s USB controllers from a single INF file.
New drivers will be posted on the support page of FTDI’s web page - in ZIP format, following the
following naming convention - Rxxyy where xx is the version of the Windows 98 drivers and yy is the
version of the Windows 2000 drivers. The first release of the common INF drivers was named R0855.zip -
which is version 10208 of the Windows 98 drivers and version 2055 of the Windows 2000 drivers.
There are now eleven files which are provided as a standard release
FTSERIAL.SYS (driver files)
FTSENUM.SYS
FTSENUM.VXD
FTCOMMS.VXD
FTSERMOU.INF
FTSERMOU.VXD
FTSERUI.DLL
FTDIUNIN.EXE (uninstaller and associated ini file)
FTDIUNIN.INI
FTDIBUS.INF (two shared INF files for Win98 and Win2k)
FTDIPORT.INF
On making a new release the files will also be posted onto FTDI’s web page http://www.ftdichip.com.
Proceed to the support page to download drivers (select Support tab at top of screen).
Release versions
R10905 (December 17, 2003)
Fixed Win98 suspend problem.
R10904 (December 1, 2003)
Fixed problem with XON/XOFF handshake.
R10903 (October 20, 2003)
Added option to bypass queueing of vendor commands.
R10902 (October 7, 2003)
Fixed problem with reconnect after disconnect with open port.
R10901 (June 12, 2003)
Fixed bug in receive timeouts.
R10900 (June 09, 2003)
Bug fixes for substitution mode.
Improved command processing synchronization.
Update device map with port name.
R10808 (April 10, 2003)
Support for substitution mode.
Fixed disconnect problem where all open ports were lost if an open port was disconnected..
R10804 (December 20, 2002)
Beta release.
Support for location ID.
New properties page.
