[chirp_users] Mac OS

[Pat Anderson]

Here is what I found. The driver is the issue with Yosemite.  The built-in
FTDI driver prevents the osx-pl2303 driver from loading.  The fix (not for
the faint of heart) is to do some black magic at the command line.

In Terminal, enter:

sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"

This allows other drivers to load.  The driver that works for me is the
Lion driver from miklor.com.


Then manually load the driver (first time only,  it will load automatically
after that) with this command in Terminal:

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext

This creates the device cu.PL2303-000012FD, be sure that is what you select
in the CHIRP Radio dialog in the Port drop-down. Again in the Terminal, do
"cd /dev", and then "ls" (without the quotes) to  see that the
cu.PL2303-000012FD driver is actually loaded.

I got this technique from this website
<https://www.mostlynetworks.com/2014/11/os-x-yosemite-prolific-usb-drivers/>.


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Ryan Tourge <ryan.tourge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Once you install the python "stuff" that is referenced in Dave's link
> it should run with no issues. I use Chirp on a mac but not 10.10. I
> think I'm at 10.9. If you are still having trouble I'll upgrde and see
> if we can work through it as others will undoubtely have the similar
> issues.
>
> On 6/28/15, Dave Nathanson <KG6ZJO at nathanson.org> wrote:
> > You may also find some useful Mac OS X tips here:
> > http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips
> >
> > Best,
> >  Dave Nathanson
> >  KG6ZJO
> >
> >
> > On Jun 28, 2015, at 3:16 PM, YL3IM <yl3im at ham.lv> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20150623.app.zip
> >
> > | Is there a version of CHIRP (or an alternate) that works on a Mac?
> > (OS10.10)
> >
> > --
> > 73! de YL3IM
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