I want to use the USART Break Condition (a.k.a out of band signalling)
to switch a microcontroller into a specific operation mode.

(see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronou...)

For a normal USART this condition is signaled in the USART status 
register of the micro controller.

But how is the Break Condition handled by a FT245BM and the virtual com 
port driver ? How can I detect with a micro, that the PC did send a 
Break ?

Any hints and workarounds are appreciated, Axel

After reading the data sheet up and down I came to the conclusion that 
the FT245 ignors a break condition as well as the data rate settings :-(

An additional status register would be nice ... just for the case a FTDI 
designer reads this :-) How aboout asserting the read line first and the 
write line while read is asserted. This state could display the status 
register at the data bus.

@hipos124: saying hello with a little bit of contents is probably not 
regarded as bad style. With contents I don't mean your CV but something 
that is related to the topic of the thread.