[Ham-Mac] radio programming from Parallels

[Chris Smolinski]

>Last night I successfully used BuTel's ARC396 (for Uniden scanner), 
>FTB1050 (for Yaesu VX-150), and VX-7 Commander (for Yaesu VX-7) from 
>Parallels (running XP Pro) on a MacBook Pro with a Belkin F5U103 
>serial-USB converter.
>
>First, I tried to use a Keyspan USA-19HS.  The problem is that 
>Keyspan Mac drivers take over all Keyspan USB-serial converters 
>attached to the machine.  There's no way to tell the Mac driver to 
>be quiet and let Parallels take over.  Now you could uninstall the 
>Keyspan Mac driver, reboot, install the Keyspan Windows driver on 
>Parallels, program the radios, reinstall Keyspan Mac driver, 
>reboot--but that sort of defeats the point of using Parallels 
>instead of Boot Camp.  It would be easier to just use Boot Camp to 
>boot into Windows.  Jim Mitchell (VX-7 Commander author) reports 
>buffer problems with the Keyspan adapters, and I see no reason to 
>think anything would be different under Boot Camp.  If you never 
>need USB-serial conversion under MacOS X, then just don't install 
>the Mac drivers, and you should be able to use the Keyspan USA-19HS 
>with the Windows driver.

You can always just unload the drivers before you run Parallels, and 
then reload them when you need them again for OS X software. Or they 
will get reloaded the next time you reboot.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com