Driver for SS200 VCP

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Hello,

I just purchased a Snap Stick (SS200). The drivers included with Portal recognize it and can talk to it via USB.

However, I want to talk to the Snap Stick as a virtual com port. I see in Device Manager that Windows sees a virtual com port ("USB Serial Port"), however it cannot find a driver.

I tried the driver Jheath shared here, but they did not recognize the device. (Looking inside the synapseport.inf file I can see there is no line for the Snap Stick, which has PID 9090. There is only a line for it in synapsebus.inf, which is presumably for proprietary USB support rather than VCP.)

I have also read Barry's app note here, however I get the impression that this is outdated and I should be able to use the VCP feature without fiddling with the FTDI config.

Please share any suggestions for getting a Snap Stick to appear as a virtual comm port. I am hoping to use this as a nice-looking demo for a customer this Friday.

Thank You,
Chris

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Well I solved my problem using FT_PROG.EXE from FTDI.

The procedure is:

1) Open FT_PROG.EXE
2) Run it, then click Scan and Parse.
3) Set the VID and PID to FTDI defaults.
4) Program. Then remove and replug the SNAP Stick.
5) It should now be immediately recognized as a serial port.

I'm happy with how it's working.