<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This covers most, if not all OSX USB-Serial Drivers.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The most important thing to realise that from 10.9 on Apple required signed drivers. All chips needed new drivers from then on.</div><div class="">It does not always mean that the modern driver wouldn’t work on an older OS, it depends on how it was written.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More notes at the bottom. If I forgot something just ask!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken</div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">FTDI Drivers FT232R USB UART (Best in class)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">All drivers available here: <a href="http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm" class="">http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">For Mac OSX you must choose the right one, older 10.6 - 10.8 or 10.9 and newer</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">If you have one, this is what you'll see. (numeric suffix varies):</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Oasis:Test kfs$ ls -l /dev/tty.*</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 0 4 Jul 10:33 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 22 10 Jul 17:06 /dev/tty.usbserial-A50285BI</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">VendorID/ProductID: 0x0403/0x6001 (Future Technology Devices International Limited)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Drivers for all OS are available here:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><a href="https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers" class="">https://www.silabs.com/products/development-tools/software/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">If you have one, this is what you'll see:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">$ ls -l /dev/tty.*</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 0 4 Jul 10:33 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 10 10 Jul 16:18 /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">VendorID/ProductID: 0x10C4/0xEA60 (Silicon Laboratories, Inc.)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Prolific Drivers</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">All OS drivers listed here: <a href="http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/supportDownload.aspx?FileType=56&FileID=133&pcid=85&Page=0" class="">http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/supportDownload.aspx?FileType=56&FileID=133&pcid=85&Page=0</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">10.9 - 10.13 <a href="http://www.prolific.com.tw/admin/Technology/GetFile.ashx?fileID=352" class="">http://www.prolific.com.tw/admin/Technology/GetFile.ashx?fileID=352</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">10.6 - 10.8 <a href="http://www.prolific.com.tw/admin/Technology/GetFile.ashx?fileID=238" class="">http://www.prolific.com.tw/admin/Technology/GetFile.ashx?fileID=238</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Waring: There are fake Prolific chips around and their drivers now detect them and refuse</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">to work!</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">If you have a prolific adaptor plugged in you will see this when you type:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Oasis:Test kfs$ ls -l /dev/tty.*</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 0 4 Jul 10:33 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 12 10 Jul 16:58 /dev/tty.usbserial</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">VendorID/ProductID: 0x067B/0x2303 (Prolific Technology, Inc.)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">WinChipHead (Cheap Chinese but works ok)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">CH340 and CH341</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Difficult to find drivers originally but I found signed drivers here:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><a href="https://blog.sengotta.net/signed-mac-os-driver-for-winchiphead-ch340-serial-bridge/" class="">https://blog.sengotta.net/signed-mac-os-driver-for-winchiphead-ch340-serial-bridge/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Older unsigned drivers available from their website:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><a href="http://www.wch.cn/downloads/file/178.html" class="">http://www.wch.cn/downloads/file/178.html</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Goodluck understanding Chinese though!</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">If you have one of these plugged in with the correct driver, you'll see this (numeric suffix varies:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ls -l /dev/tty.*</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 0 4 Jul 10:33 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 6 10 Jul 16:11 /dev/tty.wchusbserial1420</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 21, 20 10 Jul 17:05 /dev/tty.wchusbserial210</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">VendorID/ProductID: 0x1A86/0x7523 (Prolific if known)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Notes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">1. These device listings were produced in a terminal which everyone one has in /Applications/Utilities.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">2. Ignore anything related to Bluetooth! These are default entries setup to make it</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> easy to communicate with old Feature Phones that have their own USB Serial interfaces</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">3. There is nothing at all stopping you from installing all these drivers at the same time.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Only required ones will load. If you are missing the driver, it will not show!</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">4. From 10.9 Apple required drivers that were signed and things have gotten tighter since.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Nowdays, thirdparty drivers can only be installed in "/Library/Extensions"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">5. If you have installed a driver and its not loading, check the system log. It could be</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> that you got an older unsigned driver and it is rejected. Ask for assistance.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Jul 2018, at 23:04, Mary Graff <<a href="mailto:megraff@gmail.com" class="">megraff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I also use a Mac and have a Yeasu 7900R & FT60R both communicate well, but I did have to install the RT driver which then shows an additional com port. I did find in my case, I think because of the lighting ports and using a lightening to USB connector cable I have to use 2 different physical ports for the 2 different radios.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On the RTsystems inc website click on support then on the right select Yeasu Prolific driver</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Good luck,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Mary</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">KM6RMA</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Sent from my iPad</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Jul 9, 2018, at 1:51 PM, Bruce Warren <<a href="mailto:bruce@sendlgm.com" class="">bruce@sendlgm.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I am using a Mac with OS 10.6.8. I want to use Chirp to communicate with a Yaesu VX-6R.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">I have a USB cable from RT Systems specifically designated for the Yaesu. I installed the driver and my computer says it recognizes the USB cable.<br class=""><br class="">I installed a version of Chirp and it does not crash. When I try to download from my radio using Command-D, I get a window for selecting the Port, Vendor, and model. Under the choice for Port, I get two options: "/dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync" and "/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem". When I try with "/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem", it immediately tells me it cannot open the port. When I try with " /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync", it tries to do something and then errors out, saying: "Failed to communicate with the radio."<br class=""><br class="">Any ideas on what is wrong or what I can do to fix it?<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">chirp_users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" class="">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br class="">http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users<br class="">This message was sent to Mary at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:megraff@gmail.com" class="">megraff@gmail.com</a><br class="">To unsubscribe, send an email to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" class="">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br class=""></blockquote><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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