latest upstream vcs tree supports this stuff in a diff way

https://bugs.gentoo.org/376117

patch by Robert Pearce

--- ftdi_eeprom-0.2/src/main.c
+++ ftdi_eeprom-0.2/src/main.c
@@ -131,9 +131,13 @@
 	
 	if (i != 0) {
 	    printf("Unable to find FTDI devices under given vendor/product id: 0x%X/0x%X\n", eeprom.vendor_id, eeprom.product_id);
-	    printf("Retrying with default FTDI id.\n");
+	    printf("Retrying with default FTDI ids.\n");
 
     	    i = ftdi_usb_open(&ftdi, 0x0403, 0x6001);
+	    if (i != 0)
+    	    	i = ftdi_usb_open(&ftdi, 0x0403, 0x6010);
+	    if (i != 0)
+    	    	i = ftdi_usb_open(&ftdi, 0x0403, 0x6011);
 	    if (i != 0) {
 		printf("Sorry, unable to find FTDI USB chip\n");
 		exit (-1);