<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Yeah sure it is a help to everyone. What I was trying to</div><div>figure out for my further education is how these ports</div><div>when opened by the device plugged in and installed</div><div>were named in /dev/. Tom pretty much had the answer.</div><div>I'm a very avid linux user and was comparing the port</div><div>device name be it USB, SATA, Firewire, PCIe etc..</div><div>So it seemed a bit odd to to have the enumerated </div><div>USB to serial device to convey an actual name from</div><div>the driver developer rather than a standard name</div><div>that linux uses. Occasionally I have to remind myself</div><div>that OSX 10.8.2 is now unix and not linux and while </div><div>very similar, still possess differences as in this port</div><div>name convention. </div><br><div>
<div><b style="color: rgb(0, 86, 214); "><i><font style="font-size: 14px; ">Sent from my 15.4" MacBook Pro, i7 quad core</font></i> </b></div>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Jeffrey Deuel <<a href="mailto:Jeff@deuelgroup.com">Jeff@deuelgroup.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">All that stuff below is completely foreign to me, but I wanted you to know that on my MAC, my (working perfectly) port is <div>/dev/cu.PL2303-0000203A I have no idea if that helps at all...</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Phaeton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks for the info, I still have a Windows 7 netbook,</div><div>15.4" Asus laptop, a Toshiba 15" laptop, and a quad core</div><div>hombrew AMD on Asus main board running 4 ghz per core. </div><div><br></div><div>But my main computer is the 2011 MacBook 15.4" quad.</div><div>I love the unix OS. Spent a decade supporting SCO and BSD</div><div>and Novell 3xx and 4xx. Started out when networks were Thomas</div><div>Conrad 100 mbps coax on DOS and business software from IBM</div><div>and Macola. </div><div><br></div><div>Fun stuff but I was not involved in any coding other than being an </div><div>official beta for NT4. So I love learning and asking questions as you might</div><div>have guessed by now. </div><div><br></div><div>Will I Am. </div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Tom Hayward <<a href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com">esarfl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Phaeton <<a href="mailto:phaeton@neo.rr.com">phaeton@neo.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I assumed it was a name the system issued a USB to serial port device<br>and not reflected of the driver name.<br></blockquote><br>On Linux, udev usually chooses the device name. On OS X, the driver<br>tells the OS what name it wants.<br><br>FTDI usually shows up as /dev/cu.usbserial-xxxxxxxx, where xxxxxxxx is<br>either the device's serial number or, for unserialized devices, a<br>location string that depends on which USB port your device is<br>connected to.<br><br>The Prolific PL2303 driver enumerates devices at /dev/cu.usbserial.<br><br>I think /dev/cu.PL2303-XXXXXXXX is associated with the open source<br>PL2303 project.<br><br>Tom KD7LXL<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br>http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>