[Elecraft] K3, Prolific USB driver and OS X 10.7

[Mike]

I have 2 of the blue-ended cables, and both work just fine.  The cable itself has a 
clear jacket, full braid underneath.  They are a few years old however.

73, Mike NF4L

On 1/28/2012 1:00 AM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Rem . wrote:
>
>> I searched the Nabble archives for an answer to this and couldn't find one.
>> After a long time since an update I connected the USB to serial cable today
>> and launched the K3 Utility.  I double checked and I have the latest
>> version of that.  The K3 Utility didn't recognize the K3.  I tried numerous
>> times and the only thing that changed since the last update is that I've
>> gone from OS Snow Leopard to the new version OS Lion 10.7.   Has anyone
>> else had any problems?
>>
>> I couldn't see what version of the Prolific driver I was running so I
>> downloaded the one on the Elecraft website.  The instructions with the
>> downloaded driver say to go into Terminal and then the library to delete
>> the old version.  In Terminal I wasn't able to get it to find that file...
>> Says I need to be in Root.  Following info found online, that didn't
>> help.   Any suggestions?
> You do know that there are counterfeit Prolific chips and the latest
> drivers from Prolific disable them. I've had no end of trouble with
> those lately and I finally bought TrippLite/Keyspan USB-to-serial
> cables.
>
> You don't say where you got the cable you're talking about, but if they
> have translucent blue plastic, there's a good chance it's a counterfeit
> chip according to what I've seen on the intarwebs.
>