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The FTDI chip should be supported out-of-the box. Just connect the device and it will be available.
The commands lsusb and dmesg tail (directly after plugging in the device) are your friends here. Serial COM Ports are addressed as /dev/tty. (hardware serial COM ports) while USB serials (like the FTDI chip) appear as /dev/ttyUSB. when they are connected. Personally I like moserial which is available in the repository. Install it like so: sudo apt install moserial There you can configure your connection and read/write to the device.
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