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

[David Anderson GM4JJJ]

Hi Dick, 

One thing I did was to run KeySpan Serial Assistant application and under the Window menu - Get Device Info - though you need to have a working driver of course.

That showed me that the driver is 2.6b4 - which bears no relationship to their zip file naming!

Oh what a mess they are in.



On 5 Dec 2009, at 14:26, Dick Kriss wrote:

> David GM4JJJ
> 
> Thanks for the information. Tripp-Lite needs to improve how they label the
> drivers as the Get Info is useless to figure out a version.
> 
> I ended up with two unzipped versions with the same filename on my hard
> drive from Tripp-Lite.  The one that works is called keyspanUSAdrvr and was
> created September 9, 2009 10:30 AM which I think is the same version you
> included at
> 
> http://bit.ly/6vhkcM
> 
> This driver works fine with OS X 10.6.2 and the old Keyspan USA-28X
> and fldigi-3.13 for hamlib rig control of my Kenwood.
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/5/09 6:38 AM, "David Anderson GM4JJJ" <david at gm4jjj.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> 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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