[chirp_users] Help needed, can't write to Yaesu FT-60

[chirp.cordless at xoxy.net]

Jay,

My sincere thanks for the effort. Your mail came as I was just finishing up the
unsuccessful testing. I got the driver that the link pointed to, uninstalled the
official Prolific driver I installed yesterday, installed the new one per the
instructions, and even did a system reset to make sure things were cleaned
up, though the instructions seemed to load the extension live.

I have /dev/cu.PL2303-00402214
and this is what Chirp finds in the popup for radio comm, and what I'm using.

Symptoms are unchanged. I can read the FT60 just fine through this port.
Write does nothing, not even trashing the ten memories in the radio.
The radio just hangs in --Rx-- forever.

I know that the radio can be written to in clone mode after recovering from
yesterday's mess. The cable works for read. The software seems to work
for you in a very similar configuration. My MacBook is 2.9 GHz vice your
Air  looks to be 1.7 GHz - there wouldn't be any clock-counting timeouts in this
software, would there?.

Is there anything reasonable I can do to troubleshoot this?

When Chirp decides it's done after half a second, are there any logs
to look at, or any way to get visibility into what it thinks it's doing?

I'd suspect the cable, but it works for read, and I'm reluctant to
spend the money and wait time to get another without some confidence
that that's the problem, and it isn't feeling that way to me so far.

Thanks and regards,

-dan

On Sep 22, 2012, at 12:12 PM, "Jay Moran WC3K - jay+CHIRP at tp.org" <+chirp+cordless+6937ac44de.jay+CHIRP#tp.org at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Jay Moran, WC3K <jay+CHIRP at tp.org> wrote:
> 
> http://xbsd.nl/2011/07/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html
> 
> I will do my best to test it on 10.8.2 sometime today or tomorrow as I need to fix my wife's VX-7R with correct power levels since they are totally messed up from a bug.
> 
> Okay, tested with both my wife's Yaesu VX-7R with a counterfit prolific USB cable from KaWaMall, and my own Wouxun KG-UV3d with a counterfit Prolific Chip USB cable from some other reseller on eBay. Both work great with the driver above with MacOSX 10.8.2 on my June 2012 MacBook Air 11".
> 
> I downloaded it again and followed the installation steps. I used "sudo" at the start of every line/step they outline on that webpage, even though it didn't say to, better safe than sorry. The port shows up for me as: /dev/cu.PL2303-00002014.
> 
> Good luck, hope that works for you.
> 
> Jay