[Ham-Mac] USB to Serial Ports

[Chris Smolinski]

The Keyspan units are very good, I also have had excellent luck with 
adapters using the FTDI chipset, their OS X driver is very solid. 
I've had terrible luck with anything using the Prolific chipset. YMMV.

>Bob,
>
>My advice... Return it and buy one of these.
>http://www.keyspan.com/products/usa19hs/
>
>If it doesn't come with an installer for Mac OS X then it likely not 
>what you want.
>Keyspan has some great drivers which to be honest is much more 
>important that the hardware part.
>
>Bad drivers can cause severe problems with your computer as they 
>attach to OS kernel. It not worth it risk in my opinion.
>
>73
>Steve - VA3SPH
>
>On 7-Dec-08, at 7:54 PM, Bob wrote:
>
>>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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