Interesting - I've had some dodgy 'clone' boards in the past, but nothing that plain didn't work.
If it helps - in future if you ever stop trusting it, disconnect everything from it and connect RX and TX together. Then when you type in the terminal it should echo back to you - if it doesn't the FT232 is likely broken :)
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Interesting - I've had some dodgy 'clone' boards in the past, but nothing that plain didn't work.
If it helps - in future if you ever stop trusting it, disconnect everything from it and connect RX and TX together. Then when you type in the terminal it should echo back to you - if it doesn't the FT232 is likely broken :)