[u-a-dev] [Bug 84139] Arduino detected as braille device

[BHowell]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: brltty

I think this may be a bug in HAL but this is the symptom:

If I plug in my Arduino USB micro-controller board, brltty daemon starts
up and something keeps grabbing the device.  My arduino application
cannot get access to the USB serial device.

If you are curious the arduino board is documented here:
http://www.arduino.cc

In any case, it's using an off the shelf FTDI usb serial controller.

The ftdi_sio module is loaded.

Here's the output of lsusb:

Bus 003 Device 006: ID 047b:0001 Silitek Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 09da:0006 A4 Tech Co., Ltd Optical Mouse WOP-35 / Trust 450L Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Printer
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd 8-bit FIFO
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

** Affects: brltty (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Arduino detected as braille device
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84139