<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Prolific's website suggests you may need an updated version of the driver, if you are running 10.11 then you need v1.6.2, Ted's dmesg suggests his may be v1.5.0 which was good for OSX up to 10.8<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41">http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">As I've not run a Mac since 10.6 I can't comment if the OSX driver has any conterfeit chip protection like the later Windows versions do, but I think Jim may have already answered that one.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Nick.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>----- Original message -----<br></div><div>From: Chance Fulton <chance.fulton@gmail.com><br></div><div>To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com><br></div><div>Subject: Re: [chirp_users] HELP!<br></div><div>Date: Saturday, 7 September 2019 3:05 PM<br></div><div><br></div><div type="cite" id="qt"><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.<br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div class="qt-gmail_attr" dir="ltr">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 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;" class="qt-gmail_quote"><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.<br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div class="qt-gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:02 AM Ted Smith <<a href="mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com">info@pikespeakparagliding.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;" class="qt-gmail_quote"><div style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div style="font-family:Arial;">Thanks for all the feedback. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">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></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">What now?<br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><div style="font-family:Arial;">-Ted<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></div><div style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton <<a href="mailto:chance.fulton@gmail.com">chance.fulton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">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></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">unplug the cable, open terminal and type <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">sudo dmesg<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">plug the cable back in, and type the same again.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe <<a href="mailto:rock.unroe@gmail.com">rock.unroe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith <<a href="mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com">info@pikespeakparagliding.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Hi,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> I’m not sure what to do at this point.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Please help, I’m begging.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Thanks,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> -Ted<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi Ted,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">get CHIRP running on it.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">FTDI chips.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/">https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Jim KC9HI<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">_______________________________________________<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">chirp_users mailing list<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><a 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