[Ham-Mac] Serial devices names

[Jack Brindle]

Wow! It's not often we get trolling on this list.

Jack B, W6FB


On Sep 4, 2011, at 5:19 AM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:

> 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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