[Ham-Mac] USB to Serial Ports

[Bob]

I have a related issue. i jsut purchased a USB to dual db9 serial cable. 
It has the mac OSX drivers. I have tried to load the drivers both from 
the CD and from the cablesunlimited.com web site. However, when I  
unarchive the package, and check to see if the driver is installed, I 
cant find it using the kextstat command in a terminal window, or with 
the system profiler.

Bob/kg2rp

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> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 04:44:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: "John T. Barr" <w6jtb at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Ham-Mac] Serial ports, Boot Camp, Parallels 4.0
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> I am cruising sailboat, I use a MacBook with a Keyspan 4 port serial-USB adapter. Running OSX I use two serial ports, one for a GPS input for electronic charting using GPSNavX, and one for an AIS receiver input to that same application.
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> Using BootCamp and Windows Vista and running Airmail software, two more serial ports are used, one to do frequency control to a Yaesu FT 100D, and the other to a SCS PTC pactor III modem.
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> In both cases the correct drivers for both OSs have been downloaded from Keyspan and both systems run fine...just one at a time.
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> Yesterday I attended an excellent lecture on charting by Mark Doyle at the Seven Seas Cruising Association annual meeting, and he strongly recommended Parallels 4.0, indicating that the multiple serial port issues that existed in earlier versions had been fixed in this latest release.
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> Any experience with this combo and suggestions are welcome including any other OSX/Windows solutions using multiple serial ports?
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> 73, John, W6JTB
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