[chirp_users] Problem with a Mac

[Phaeton]

Yeah sure it is a help to everyone. What I was trying to
figure out for my further education is how these ports
when opened by the device plugged in and installed
were named in /dev/. Tom pretty much had the answer.
I'm a very avid linux user and was comparing the port
device name be it USB, SATA, Firewire, PCIe etc..
So it seemed a bit odd to to have the enumerated 
USB to serial device to convey an actual name from
the driver developer rather than a standard name
that linux uses. Occasionally I have to remind myself
that OSX  10.8.2 is now unix and not linux and while 
very similar, still possess differences as in this port
name convention. 

Sent from my 15.4" MacBook Pro, i7 quad core 

On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Jeffrey Deuel <Jeff at deuelgroup.com> wrote:

> All that stuff below is completely foreign to me, but I wanted you to know that on my MAC, my (working perfectly) port is 
> /dev/cu.PL2303-0000203A  I have no idea if that helps at all...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Phaeton wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the info, I still have a Windows 7 netbook,
>> 15.4" Asus laptop, a Toshiba 15" laptop, and a quad core
>> hombrew AMD on Asus main board running 4 ghz per core. 
>> 
>> But my main computer is the 2011 MacBook 15.4" quad.
>> I love the unix OS. Spent a decade supporting SCO and BSD
>> and Novell 3xx and 4xx. Started out when networks were Thomas
>> Conrad 100 mbps coax on DOS and business software from IBM
>> and Macola. 
>> 
>> Fun stuff but I was not involved in any coding other than being an 
>> official beta for NT4. So I love learning and asking questions as you might
>> have guessed by now. 
>> 
>> Will I Am. 
>> 
>> Sent from my 15.4" MacBook Pro, i7 quad core 
>> 
>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Phaeton <phaeton at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>>>> I assumed it was a name the system issued a USB to serial port device
>>>> and not reflected of the driver name.
>>> 
>>> On Linux, udev usually chooses the device name. On OS X, the driver
>>> tells the OS what name it wants.
>>> 
>>> FTDI usually shows up as /dev/cu.usbserial-xxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxxx is
>>> either the device's serial number or, for unserialized devices, a
>>> location string that depends on which USB port your device is
>>> connected to.
>>> 
>>> The Prolific PL2303 driver enumerates devices at /dev/cu.usbserial.
>>> 
>>> I think /dev/cu.PL2303-XXXXXXXX is associated with the open source
>>> PL2303 project.
>>> 
>>> Tom KD7LXL
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