[Ham-Mac] Serial devices names

T. Joseph Carter kf7qzc at spiritsubstance.com
Sun Sep 4 08:19:28 EDT 2011


Hey everyone,

I'm doing some development for the Mac that needs to be able to 
control devices over serial ports.  I've got one handy, a Prolific 
device, that creates /dev/cu.usbserial when plugged in, given the 
appropriate Prolific driver.

I can't find my Keyspan device right now, but I know it creates 
something else (still being a /dev/cu.something).  Any others I 
should know about?

PCI cards in Power Cheesegraters?  VMWare/Parallels VMs?

Anything short of a Hackintosh seems to be fair game for things I'd 
want to support.  And my opposition to shrinkwrap license silliness 
causes me to say if you wanna try to boot OS X on your piece of crap 
Dell, go for it—as long as you don't ask me to fix it when it doesn't 
work right.  ;)  (But that's a whole other discussion!)

Joseph - KF7QZC


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