[Ham-Mac] OS X Lion

[T. Joseph Carter]

And the older driver for certain does not work anymore?  Troubling, 
the only USB-Serial devices I’ve ever seen supported are the Keyspan 
devices and the open-source Prolific PL2303 chipset driver.  (I half 
wonder if the former uses the Prolific chipset, since the PL2303 
driver’s page mentions Tripp-Lite.  Haven’t tried it.)

I have one of the Keyspan models from before the Tripp-Lite 
acquisition, but I need another and am strongly considering getting 
one of http://is.gd/VUtjjW (amazon.com, US$11, Prime eligible), which 
is pretty comparable to the USA-19HS for any purpose to which I could 
put the thing.  Haven’t checked if the driver is Lion-ready yet, but 
I have this sinking suspicion that if it isn’t, it will be a lot 
faster than anything out of Tripp-Lite.

I have one of http://is.gd/PlWv2x and used it for an old external 56k 
modem.  Same chipset, so I know the thing basically works on my Mac, 
but unless your radio’s got a DB9 port on the back you’re going to 
need some adapters with this one.

Still, I hope the Keyspan device can be made to work.  I have a 
couple of them in use myself, and have clients who use them as well.  
I’d hate to have to tell them they need new serial dongles before 
they pay me to upgrade them to Lion.  They might decide it’s not 
worth it if it means extra expenses!  ;)

73,

Joseph - kf7qzc


On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:37:34PM -0400, Javier Henderson wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Javier Henderson <javier at kjsl.org> wrote:
>
>
>> I'll wait a couple of weeks, if nothing materializes I will give them a
>> call.
>>
>
>
>Well, I didn't wait a couple of weeks, and I didn't call them either, but I
>did email them, please see below.
>
>Ah, well.
>
>73,
>-jav k4jh
>
>--begin quote
>Thank you for your inquiry. We do not have a Lion driver for the USA-19HS
>yet and there is no ETA at this time. Keep checking tripplite.comfor further
>updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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