[Elecraft] MacOS High Sierra FTDI driver issue

[Fred Moore]

Bill, I am currently on High Sierra, RumlogNG is still operating just
fine on my KX3  I have not checked the utilities for the for the KX3, I
don't have a K3, the drivers don't know if this information helps or
not, drivers might be different... 

Regards.. Fred

Fred Moore
email: fred at fmeco.com
       wd8kni at gmail.com
phone: 321-217-8699

On 11/23/17 4:09 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I upgraded my computer to MacOS High Sierra and found it could not
> contact the K3. The K3 utility failed, RUMlogNG failed, and wsjt-x
> failed. I found the following by robertklep on the web:
>
> What seems to have worked for me is actually removing the FTDI driver
> (/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext), after finding that
> Apple ships an FTDI driver with the OS itself
> (/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBFTDI.kext).
>
> I moved the driver out of /Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
> and things started working again.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
>
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