[chirp_users] Please post

[Jay Moran, N2JCM]

I have to agree with Tom here. After finding the right driver for my
counterfeit PL2303 USB adapters, everything has been great running on
MacOSX.

I used this driver for 10.7...
http://xbsd.nl/2011/07/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html

If you are using 10.8, not sure if it work or not. I'll be upgrading soon
and will find out.

Jay

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Guy Teague <accts at gtweb.org> wrote:
> > there are evidently major problems on the mac. i have basically the
> > same setup and with both the uv5r and the uv6d and two different
> > cables i can only get the mac to recognize the radio perhaps once out
> > of two dozen attempts--download or upload.
> >
> > using windows7 64-bit via vmware on the same mac same usb port same
> > cable succeeds every single time, so obviously there is no fault with
> > the radio(s) or cable(s) or usb port conflict.
> >
> > also, i noticed the mac version of chirp does not have all the
> > functions of the windows version and requires yet more python modules
> > to support radio reference db. i consider myself lucky to have the
> > windows workaround because i think if you had a mac only and had to
> > depend on the chirp port you would be very frustrated.
> >
> > /guy (73 de kg5vt)
>
> Please quit spewing FUD. I use Chirp on my Mac and prefer it to
> Windows. All Chirp features are available on all operating systems.
> That's the whole point of Chirp. I wrote the Radio Reference support
> on my Mac and it works just fine.
>
> The issue with your cable is undoubtedly with the OS X drivers. Avoid
> the counterfeit PL2303 cables; everything else works great.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
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