<div><div dir="auto">Mine doesn’t work anymore either, I’ve read that this is an OS X thing. I have high Sierra on a Mac Pro 5,1. Nothing happens at all when I plug the device in. I’ve read that something in the extensions section of the system preferences needs to be configured to allow third party extensions.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:35 AM Chance Fulton <<a href="mailto:chance.fulton@gmail.com">chance.fulton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">I might have a Mac around here somewhere, I can try to boot it and see what it is supposed to say.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:02 AM Ted Smith <<a href="mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com" target="_blank">info@pikespeakparagliding.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks for all the feedback. <br>I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command.<br>This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific<br><br>As I know nothing about Terminal stuff. This looks to me like it detected the driver, but I don’t see any node stuff going on there.<br>What now?<div>Thanks,</div><div>-Ted<br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton <<a href="mailto:chance.fulton@gmail.com" target="_blank">chance.fulton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable?<br><br>unplug the cable, open terminal and type <br><br>sudo dmesg<br><br>plug the cable back in, and type the same again.<br><br>It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.<br><br>IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.<br><br><br>On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe <<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith <<a href="mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com" target="_blank">info@pikespeakparagliding.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi,<br>> You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn.<br>> I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem.<br>> I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios.<br>> I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far.<br>> There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore.<br>> I’m not sure what to do at this point.<br>> Please help, I’m begging.<br>> Thanks,<br>> -Ted<br><br>Hi Ted,<br><br>My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a<br>Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could<br>get CHIRP running on it.<br><br>Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so<br>virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip<br>in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific<br>website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming<br>cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with<br>FTDI chips.<br><br>So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver<br>from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303<br>chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90<br>euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.<br><br><a href="https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/" target="_blank">https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/</a><br><br>I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.<br><br>Jim KC9HI<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">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>This message was sent to Chance at <a href="mailto:chance.fulton@gmail.com" target="_blank">chance.fulton@gmail.com</a><br>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br><br><br>-- <br>Chance Fulton<br><a href="mailto:chance.fulton@gmail.com" target="_blank">chance.fulton@gmail.com</a><br>810.441.5795<br>_______________________________________________<br>chirp_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">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></blockquote></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite">This message was sent to Ted Smith at <a href="mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com" target="_blank">info@pikespeakparagliding.com</a><br>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank">chirp_users-unsubscribe@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br></blockquote><br><div><span><img src="cid:16d0bef82b36965338f1" style="width:87px;max-width:100%"></span></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Ted Smith<br>Pikes Peak Paragliding, LLC<br><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/2205+Charing+Court+Colorado+Springs,+CO+80919?entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">2205 Charing Court</a><br><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/2205+Charing+Court+Colorado+Springs,+CO+80919?entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">Colorado Springs, CO 80919</a><br><a href="mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com" target="_blank">info@PikesPeakParaGliding.com</a><br>719.761.1486<br>EIN: 81-4065089<br><br><br><br><br><br></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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