very glad you got that working. i think that's the same driver i found following a link from an emf meter manufacturer, of all things!<div><br></div><div>i'll be updating from 10.7.5 (lion) to mountain lion soon and i hope the driver survives the trip.</div>
<div><br></div><div>and yeah, not to get into fanboi territory here, but i've run a mac since 1996 when at a ham flea market i discovered a dos window running on a powerbook. i've been linux/unix useradmin as well, but that stuff wears you out and burns you out and you can run ubuntu(64) or indeed nearly and *nix and windows 7(64) on a mac using vmware anyway. i have to use a windows xp system for work and things that just won't install at all into a native window system will fire up right away on the virtual system running on my mac. it's a better windows than windows!</div>
<div><br></div><div>so i personally can deeply appreciate you wanting to run this on your mac.</div><div><br></div><div>/guy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net" target="_blank">chirp.cordless@xoxy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Cool info! Thank you very much, this clears up some of my confusion.<br>
<br>
I remember seeing the custom VID/PID thing when I downloaded<br>
the FTDI driver a few months ago, but had no idea what it was for,<br>
and I didn't need it for that unrelated cable application, which presented<br>
as an FTDI device.<br>
<br>
-dan<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:41 PM, "Robert Terzi - <a href="mailto:rct@r-t.org">rct@r-t.org</a>" <+chirp+cordless+a79d3bb79e.rct#<a href="mailto:r-t.org@spamgourmet.com">r-t.org@spamgourmet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 9/28/2012 4:58 PM, <a href="mailto:chirp.cordless@xoxy.net">chirp.cordless@xoxy.net</a> wrote:> Update 9/28/12:<br>
>> Summary: I have Chirp 0.2.3 working in OSX 10.8.2 with my FT60s using an RT<br>
>> Systems cable. I was able to write to both radios on the first attempt with each.<br>
><br>
> Glad to hear things are working for you. Basically using an FTDI based cable<br>
> solved your problem.<br>
><br>
> The RT Systems cables I've seen are made with FTDI chips. However they<br>
> install a custom USB Vendor ID and Product ID (VID & PID) on them, so they<br>
> aren't recognized by the generic FTDI virtual com port drivers.<br>
><br>
> On windows this gives them the advantage that their software is reliably<br>
> able to find their cable.The user doesn't have to figure out whatcom port<br>
> got assigned. The disadvantage for the user is that other software like CHIRP<br>
> work with the cable because it doesn't create a COM port.<br>
><br>
> I believe the Mac driver you installed, is the same FTDI serial driverjust<br>
> with the RT Systems VID and PID instead of the generic ones.<br>
><br>
> There is a utility provided by FTDI, at least for windows that will let you<br>
> change the VID/PID on the chip.So you can set it back to the FTDI default<br>
> and not worry about needing a special driver if you are ever so inclined.<br>
> (The downside is you won't be able to use the RT software on windows since it<br>
> will only work with their cable with the custom VID/PID (and the ftdi direct driver).<br>
> This was discussed on this list 6 months to a year ago.)<br>
><br>
><br>
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