[Ham-Mac] QST For Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Keyspan Adapter Users

[David Anderson GM4JJJ]

Dick and others be aware that yet another update by Keyspan appears, for me at least, to be broken.

I have just emailed Tripp-Lite:

Recently I upgraded to Macintosh OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and at that time I also downloaded the latest driver for the Keyspan from your websitehttp://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=3914

Everything worked fine.

However I noticed that recently you have again updated the Snow Leopard drivers so I downloaded and installed that, unfortunately the driver no longer works with my system. I reverted back to the previous version which I had in my archives and everything is back to normal.

I have tried completely in-installing the Keyspan drivers and just installing your latest, but I get the same problem. Keyspan Serial Assistant sees no Keyspan devices with the very latest drivers.


The driver that does work was:

http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Driver/Mac-OS-10-6-v26b-driver.zip


The latest problematic installer:

http://www.tripplite.com/shared/software/Driver/Mac-OS-10-6-v26b2-driver.zip



Just hope that this may alert you to a problem that other customers may see.




On 25 Sep 2009, at 15:10, Dick Kriss wrote:

> If you are using a Keyspan USB to Serial adapter and the new
> Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, you may want to download and
> install the latest (2.6) Keyspan 10.6 driver.
> 
> <http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtModelID=3914>
> 
> Note the last item under  the "Help & Downloads" tab near the
> bottom of the page.
> 
> Model USA-19HS, USA-49WG, USA-28XG & UPR-112G Keyspan
> Driver - Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).  (zip - 386 Kb)
> 
> I contacted Triplite a few weeks ago and was told they had
> no plans for new drivers for the older Keyspan products so I
> have been using the older version 2.5 driver.  I just installed
> the new version 2.6 driver and it works great with the USA-28X
> Serial/USB adapter for Rig Control with fldigi and my Kenwood
> TS-570S.
> 
> One word of caution from the installer "Mac OS X 10.6 or
> later is required."
> 
> Thanks to Jeff N8NOE for relaying the update notice from Don
> VE3VRW, the developer of MLDX and other Macintosh applications.
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU
> 

73
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