[Ham-Mac] microham on a mac

[Dave Wright]

You probably need to read the following documents first:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/AppNotes/AN_134_FTDI_Drivers_Installation_Guide_for_MAC_OSX.pdf


http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/TechnicalNotes/TN_105%20Adding%20Support%20for%20New%20FTDI%20Devices%20to%20Mac%20Driver.pdf


As I recall, at least for some devices, the /dev names for the FTDI drivers
require a very specific format/name length in order to function properly.
When I upgraded from SL to Lion, my Navigator drivers no longer worked.
However, a bit of experimentation revealed the the problem was related to
the correct name length.  For example, the Navigator's CAT port is named
tty.NavCAT____^_00000000A (or cu.NavCAT____^_00000000A)   If you shorten
that by a character or lengthen that by a character, it doesn't work.

All of this can be defined in the FTDI driver's plist, as annotated in the
TN-105 document linked above.  I can't speak for the settings on the USB
Interface III, but hopefully this will help you a bit.


Dave
K3DCW
www.k3dcw.net

"Real radio bounces off the sky"


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Kevin Bottorff <kevval at comcast.net> wrote:

> how do I get into some plist files?
> On May 29, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Kevin Bottorff wrote:
>
> > yes I got the current drivers from FDTI's web site. the instructions
> said if you want to del there drivers you had to login as root. I was going
> to try this and re-install but I don't think it will do any good. I bought
> this thing because they said they support mac now I think I wasted my money
> This is all new to me and is is very frustrating Thank you
> >
> >
> > P.s. any suggestions for a digital interface for mac?
> > On May 29, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Don wrote:
> >
> >> Personally, I think the problem is that the driver that the microHam
> >> software was written for is long gone and that the current driver(s) are
> >> incompatible. I gave up after talking to microHam when they said that
> >> they have not turned on a Mac for years.
> >>
> >> Don KF7DS
> >>
> >> On 5/29/2012 8:03 AM, Kevin Bottorff wrote:
> >>> I have a mac book running osx 10.7.4 Just bought my first digital
> interface, A micro ham usb interface lll. I went to install drivers from
> FTDI from cd sent with from microham with no luck. I then downloaded latest
> drivers from FTDI with same results. I went to terminal as they instructed
> and typed cd/dev ls-l it says no file found. Not sure what to do
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>                                       Thanks
> >>>                                     Kevin
> >>>
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