ftdi chip + ctypes + ftd2xx... need help with reading chipid!

[Egor Zindy]

Dear List,

This one is way beyond my comprehension skills, I just don't understand 
what I'm doing wrong.

I am trying to read the chipid from an FTDI chip based USB key (DLP-D,  
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/DLP-D.htm ), using:

- the ftd2xx module http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftd2xx/0.1
- the ftd2xx.dll which comes with the driver install
- the chipid dll (1.1.0) from here: 
http://www.ftdichip.com/Projects/FTDIChip-ID.htm
- a ctypes interface I wrote by hand (only 7 functions to wrap, I 
thought it'd be easy!)

The ftd2xx is used for testing, to open / close the device.

My Problem is that neither of the following two wrapped functions (with 
the exact same arguments) return the right result (full chipid.py 
library attached):

   def FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(DeviceIndex):
       n = DWORD()
       status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(DeviceIndex, 
ctypes.byref(n))

       if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
           raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

       return n.value

   def FTID_GetDeviceChipID(DeviceIndex):
       n = DWORD()
       status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceChipID(DeviceIndex, ctypes.byref(n))

       if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
           raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

       return n.value

* On my machine (XP, 32 bits), if I plug two keys in, I can get the 
device chip id from the device with index=1. The one with index=0 always 
gives the message "Invalid device handle."
* I get the wrong location id as well, 0 instead of 0x21...
* the FTID_GetNumDevices function also uses a byref, c_ulong and works.
* FTDI's win32 console example returns the right results (and uses c 
unsigned longs) - available from 
http://www.ftdichip.com/Projects/FTDIChip-ID.htm

Any help appreciated!

Regards,
Egor

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20080719/2b841499/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: chipid.py
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20080719/2b841499/attachment.ksh>