Howdy
I am hoping someone might me able to help.
I am making good progress with my new macbook, I have xastir running in brilliant colour and my gpredict install is coming along.
I was disapointed when I plugged in my U232-P9 USB to serial device and the macbook would not see it. I have searched the net and tried a few drivers to no avail.
I re-checked the device on a windows box and yes it is still fine.
Ideas ?
What device do you use ?
Andrew VK4TEC
I have had excellent results with Keyspan usb<>serial adapters on my macs.
http://www.keyspan.com/products/homepage.2.productList.Serial.spml
I am in no way associated with Keyspan - just a satisfied user.
Ollie
On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
Howdy
I am hoping someone might me able to help.
I am making good progress with my new macbook, I have xastir running in brilliant colour and my gpredict install is coming along.
I was disapointed when I plugged in my U232-P9 USB to serial device and the macbook would not see it. I have searched the net and tried a few drivers to no avail.
I re-checked the device on a windows box and yes it is still fine.
Ideas ?
What device do you use ?
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On 29 Jan 2008, at 22:47, Ollie Eisman 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.
http://www.keyspan.com/products/homepage.2.productList.Serial.spml
I am in no way associated with Keyspan - just a satisfied user.
Same here...:-)
John
On Jan 29, 2008, at 5:12 PM, John Heaton wrote:
since then I've used several keyspan adapters and all were picked up correctly by MacOSX.
http://www.keyspan.com/products/homepage.2.productList.Serial.spml
In the past I've used IOGear's stuff also.
I did some minimal background checking, and it would appear that (of course) the chipset used by the manufacturer is the key (no pun intended) to whether or not most USB-to-serial devices work under Unix and Unix-like OS's like Linux and OS X. (Technically I'm running OX 10.5, so does that make it OS X.V? Heh.)
I found that almost anything made by FTDI works on anything I plug them into, mainly because they publish standards for talking to their hardware (like all good hardware manufacturers do) whereas many of the cheap knock-offs haven't had drivers written for them.
So -- if manufacturers publish that they're using FTDI chipsets (few do this either), those are usually a "safe" bet. That and always buying hardware from reputable retailers who will take back things that won't work without robbing you (so called "re-stocking" fees).
-- Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected]
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.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed." -- Anonymous
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On 30 Jan 2008, at 14:55, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
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.
My two Macs are G4 based so Classic stuff will still run but I've nothing left in the OS9 Applications folder that hasn't been replaced by OSX versions. The weird usb<>rs232 that I had needed a real OS9 system and wouldn't work with Classic mode.
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 .. :)
I brought the usb<>rs232 adapter into the office and have used it with Linux but not for some time as all my Linux boxes here have both usb and rs232.
For info: The usb<>rs232 adapter that didn't work with OSX has a 'BANDRIDGE' label on it.
Bye for now, John
I tried a MCT Chipset one - no luck
I tried an older belkin - no luck
I have been told JAYCAR here sell a prololific chipset one i am am going to try that.
I did try a prolific PL2303 one from work and it fires up fine.
On 31/01/2008, at 12:55 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
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.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed." -- Anonymous
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I got a Prolific chipset , 0x2303, 0x067b from JAYCAR.
I then downloaded a driver from the Prolific web site
Working.
Thanks for your help !
On 30/01/2008, at 7:32 AM, Andrew Rich wrote:
Howdy
I am hoping someone might me able to help.
I am making good progress with my new macbook, I have xastir running in brilliant colour and my gpredict install is coming along.
I was disapointed when I plugged in my U232-P9 USB to serial device and the macbook would not see it. I have searched the net and tried a few drivers to no avail.
I re-checked the device on a windows box and yes it is still fine.
Ideas ?
What device do you use ?
Andrew VK4TEC
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