Yeah, that sounds about like my experience with some peripherals whose vendors haven't quite picked up on the fact that OS 9 is now obsolete by several years and no currently shipping Macs will run it even in Classic mode (because it won't run at all on Intel-based Macs), and they don't realize that a Mac from 7-8 years ago is a *completely* different animal from a present-day Mac.
Any luck with open source/Linux style drivers? If they'll run under BSD or a distro that's BSD-like enough to satisfy them, they might be adaptable to Darwin with some tweaking and maybe a bit of luck .. :)
On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:12 PM, John Heaton wrote:
I have had excellent results with Keyspan usb<>serial adapters on my macs.
When I got my first Mac I borrowed a friends keyspan adapter for a few days and it worked fine. When he asked for it back (;-(), I had a look around for one locally and found a usb<>rs232 adapter in a local Maplin store - the assistant looked at the package and read off 'works on MacOS' so I went away happy. When I got home and had ripped the packaging open it would not pick it up at all on my Mac, so I had a closer look at the wording on the package - not much of it in english and sure enough it did say it would work on MacOS - but it didn't say anything about MacOSX. Probably the assistant didn't know the difference.
since then I've used several keyspan adapters and all were picked up correctly by MacOSX.
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