<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jens<div><br></div><div>Here is what I have so far,</div><div>The cable is this one:</div><div><a href="http://www.valley-ent.com/catalog/yaesu-programming-cable-ft7800-ft8800-ft8900-ftdi-chipset-p-219.html?osCsid=4ci6vs7343mcsqkgg6ijfn86t7#.Uo6liH-9KK0">http://www.valley-ent.com/catalog/yaesu-programming-cable-ft7800-ft8800-ft8900-ftdi-chipset-p-219.html?osCsid=4ci6vs7343mcsqkgg6ijfn86t7#.Uo6liH-9KK0</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Mac operating system is at 10.6.</div><div><br></div><div>The driver I am unsure of at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>Randy</div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-12-15, at 3:10 PM, Jens J. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>1. Which exact cable was purchased? Do you have a link to the store, etc?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>2. what is the exact OS version (10.5? 10.6? etc). If this mac mini is G4/G5 (non-intel), you may have to search to find the right drivers.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>3. which exact driver did you install? if it was downloaded from the internet, provide the link.</span></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0,
0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If this is pre-intel mac, it may require some special work to hunt down a driver that will work with this, provided it's even available.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-Jens</div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size:
12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Randy Elliott <<a href="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com">ve3jpu@me.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 15, 2013 1:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [chirp_users] Chirp & FT8800R<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Greeting to the group<br><br>I have been trying to help a friend out with his FT8800R and connection to Chirp.<br>He is running a Mac Mini that I be leave is pre Intel.<br>He purchased the dedicated USB to radio cable from a link on the Chirp web site.<br>Here is the problem, he launches chirp OK, it recognizes his cable, he places his radio into clones mode, but he keeps getting an error message which states:<br>"could not open port/dev/cu.usbserial-RTWHKYXO: [Errno2] No such
file or directory: '/dev/cu.usbserial-RTWHKYXO'"<br><br>Any help would be appreciated.<br><br><br><br>Randy Elliott VE3JPU<br>Technical Director<br>South Pickering Amateur Radio Club Inc.<br>Box 53<br>Pickering, Ontario, Canada<br>L1V 2R2<br>905-427-6853<br><a ymailto="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com" href="mailto:ve3jpu@me.com">ve3jpu@me.com</a><br>Skype: scruffdog<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><a href="http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users" target="_blank">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </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></div><br></div></body></html>