[Ham-Mac] Serial devices names

[T. Joseph Carter]

It was a serious question, if you don't want to answer it, you don't 
have to.  I'm writing Mac software to interface with radios for which 
existing software is limited or non-existent.

I have used Macs and little else since 2003, and rather than have to 
piddle with VMWare to program my radios, I am trying to do something 
about it.  For myself alone, I'd just code /dev/cu.usbserial since 
that's all I'm ever likely to see on my iMac, Mac mini, or MacBook 
Air.  It just seemed more appropriate to support everything else too.

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:29:40AM -0700, Jack Brindle wrote:
>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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