[Ham-Mac] OSX, Parallels, XP, Keyspan serial USB adapters

John Palese jpalese at charter.net
Fri Jul 13 07:05:26 EDT 2007


For those of us not well versed in mac nuances, how do you unload the  
OSX drivers?

Is this unload of the drivers a temporary or permanent condition?
73


On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Chris Smolinski wrote:

> Unload the OSX drivers before running Parallels. For FTDI drivers,  
> I use:
> sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
>
> You'd want to do something similar, with the correct kext file for  
> your Keyspan drivers.
>
>> I am using a Mac Book running 10.4.10, Parallels build 3214, XP  
>> Home, and would like
>> to make my Keyspan USA-49WLC  4 port serial  adapter run under  
>> Windows so I can run
>> Airmail for Winlink.
>>
>> Anyone had any luck with this combo?
>>
>> The same adapter runs under the Max OS with no problem, but I get  
>> a hardware error
>> message under XP.
>>
>> Keyspan supports suggested that  OSX isn't dropping control to XP,  
>> but Parallels
>> support has not answered my support request.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> John, W6JTB
>
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