[chirp_users] Please post

Guy Teague
Thu Sep 13 13:45:18 PDT 2012


perhaps you missed the part where i said chirp works flawlessly using
windows7 on vmware running on the _same_ mac using _exactly the same_
hardware and usb port. and my wouxun cable came from an official
wouxun dealer.

now i won't deny that perhaps i've gotten ahold of the wrong driver or
haven't gotten it installed correctly on the mac. i went to at least a
dozen, maybe two dozen, websites and tried everything i could find. if
there was an authoritative source that had actual links to actual
files that actually worked that might help. any links you can find
point to pages where you have to mount new searches and choose between
multiple options to the point where you end up completely confused.
don't get me wrong--i am a grizzled veteran of such unix/linux
scavenger hunts for drivers and software--it's a major factor in
keeping linux off desktops, imo.

if you are actually able to help instead of trying to suppress
constructive critcism, here is the output of my kextstat command:

161    0 0xffffff7f809bd000 0xb000     0xb000
nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 (1.0.0d1) <115 31 5 4 3>

is that the right driver?

/guy (73 de kg5vt)

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:19 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
> _______________________________________________
> chirp_users mailing list
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com
> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users



More information about the chirp_users mailing list